What is "co-sleeping"?
Co-sleeping is where a child and a parent sleep together in the same bed. There are pro's and con's to it. The pro is that you can be with your child, the child can be with you the whole night, and when your child wakes up spontaneously in the night, they can see that mom is there or dad's there or both are there, and they'll go, spontaneously go back to sleep. The problem is that when the child gets older, well firstly there's a privacy issue, if privacy's important to the parent or parents, and number two, as the child gets older you may come to a point as a parent that you don't want your six year old or your nine year old or your twelve year old to be in your bed and then it might become, it might become a problem because it has become so habitual that to get a child out of the bed can be difficult. I mean, if a child is twelve years of age it's probably not going to be much less of a problem because you can induce a lot of incentives and some other behavioral strategies, but for that's younger, you know a child that's maybe younger than six years, or even younger than eight years, they are so used to this that it's going to be significant work to undo that habit that they have to get them to sleep on their own.
