A television personality has shared her reasons for continuing to co-sleep with her children.
Adequate sleep is crucial for both our physical and mental well-being, and co-sleeping often helps families achieve a restful night.
Kristin Cavallari, mother to Camden, 13, Jaxon, 11, and Saylor, nine, recently discussed her parenting approach on her Let’s Be Honest podcast. She revealed that her youngest children still share her bed.
She co-parents with her former husband, Jay Cutler, following their 2022 divorce after separating two years prior.
“Once Jaxon could walk so well, let’s say, right after a year, when he realized, ‘Oh, wait, I can get out of my bed,’” Cavallari began.
“Once he realized he could get out of this bed, he came in my room – I’m not kidding, guys – every single night for four years, I’m not joking. Every single night for four years.”
She elaborated: “I do let him sleep with me. Now it’s one night a week.
“So when school started, I told Jaxon and Saylor, you guys get one night a week with me, we can’t do every other night.
“I do enjoy sleeping with them. The problem is in the morning, because I get up before them, and then I have to be so quiet in my bathroom, like brushing my teeth, and washing my face, and getting dressed.
“I want to be able to have the freedom to move about my room and get dressed in the morning without worrying about waking someone up.”
Cavallari’s remarks sparked an online debate, with many supporting her choice to co-sleep.
On Reddit, one user commented: “I really appreciate her saying this and normalizing it. In many parts of the world, entire families sleep in the same bed or room. Many people like the comfort of sleeping near another person. We don’t need to make everything weird.”
Another added: “My kids would 100% sleep in my bed if I let them. They’re around the same ages. This isn’t strange. Let them stay little. Childhood goes by so quickly and adulthood sucks.”
A different perspective was shared by another user: “I don’t care if that’s what she likes to do. I personally don’t like to co-sleep because my children move around too much and I’d never get any solid sleep, and I barely get any as it is right now lol.”
And another user mentioned: “As a parent who LOVED co-sleeping with my boys, my only concern is that now their classmates know. I don’t think my kids would have ever admitted that to their friends.”