By what age do you stop laying with your kids in bed?

[Anonymous]

Question in the title.

[Anonymous]

I never did? You mean to read books before bed?

[Anonymous]

What do you mean? Sleeping with them? Laying until they fall asleep? Lay in the bed and chat with them?

[Anonymous]

It's lying, not laying. You lie in bed today, you lay in bed yesterday. Lay is the past tense of lie.

Probably around age 5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question in the title.

Your question is unclear. Describe your specific routine.

[Anonymous]

I'll let you know if the answer is age 21 the next time she's home from college.

She still loves for me to lay in bed beside her and rub her back while she falls asleep. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world!!

[Anonymous]

I'm 40 and will still lay in bed with either of my parents to watch a show or something if we're visiting each others houses. They both often go to their room to get settled and ready for bed before they want to go to sleep so I go hang out with them on their bed to chat and watch their shows

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'll let you know if the answer is age 21 the next time she's home from college.

She still loves for me to lay in bed beside her and rub her back while she falls asleep. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world!!

This just made my tween-mom heart so happy.

[Anonymous]

I never lay in bed with ours because I'm fat enough that I don't really trust the weight limit on a kid's bed with both of us in there, but she'll come to our bed to cuddle and she's almost 7. I'll keep doing it until she stops wanting it.

[Anonymous]

Sorry about the misspelling grammar police. I’ll never make that mistake again. 😂

It was a general question: reading, chatting, falling asleep, cuddling in some form, etc.

The question stems from the fact that kids grow, but still seem like babies to us, generally speaking.

[Anonymous]

My 8 year old boy still wants to snuggle in bed sometimes. It'll be a sad day when he stops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's lying, not laying. You lie in bed today, you lay in bed yesterday. Lay is the past tense of lie.

Probably around age 5.

you are correct, but it's a very incomplete lesson if you don't also explain that lay is the transitive verb, and lie is the non-transitive. it just also so happens that lay is the past tense of the non-transitive lie, and laid is the past tense of the transitive. meanwhile, laid is the past perfect transitive, while lain is the past perfect non-transitive.

OP - We never did that with our kids, other than for maybe reading a book or two.

[Anonymous]

I still chat and cuddle with my 17yo a few days a week.

[Anonymous]

My oldest is 12, and I will lie in bed with him and read for as long as he wants me too. I don’t expect it to be too much longer. It’s one one that I can show that I cherish and care about him and it’s the only 1:1 time we get for the most part.

[Anonymous]

I still do this with my mom and I’m 32.