Your Toddler and Sleep

Based on your child's age (27 months), it sounds as though she is having only a mild sleep disturbance.

You may feel that your child is too old to still be wetting the bed. In fact, about 20 percent of five-year-olds and 10 percent of six-year-olds wet the bed at least monthly.

Transitioning from the family bed to sleeping in your own bed in another room can be and usually is a major adjustment for a youngster.

Reassurance from an expert that bed wetting in a three-year-old is not a sign of a developmental problem.

A toddler's refusal to go to sleep is a very common sleep problem.

Once your child is interested in overcoming his bedwetting, two guiding principles apply: work with him and protect his self-esteem.

Unfortunately, you have created a ritualized bedtime sleep pattern and nighttime awakening pattern that has your child needing your presence to fall asleep.

The parent of a four-year-old is advised how to help her child learn to go to his own bed and fall asleep on his own.

A pediatric neurologist or a doctor who treats childhood sleep problems should evaluate your seven-year-old.

Find out the difference between night (or sleep) terrors and nightmares, which are two separate parasomnias (sleep disturbances).

There is more to this family problem than just your husband's responses to your daughter's nighttime bedwetting.

Developmentally, children show tremendous individual differences in how frequently and for how long they nap, as well as when they stop napping.

Our expert provides advice on helping a child make the transition from her parents' bed to her own.