8:30 and he's still up . . .

What do you do with a four-year-old boy that refuses to sleep in his own bed? I put the boys to bed at 7:30. Michael (the 7-year-old) went to bed with little argument and fell asleep by 7:45 as usual. Jacob, however, puts up a fight every night. He says his bed isn't comfortable. He wants to sleep in Mommy and Daddy's bed every night. I tried letting him sleep in our guest bedroom which has a very comfortable bed, but that wasn't good enough. It has to be Mommy and Daddy's bed. Now, before the questions arise, yes, we have let him sleep with us in the past. I know, I know, we never should've started letting him, but nobody's perfect. The mistake was made now we're dealing with it. Back to the original question, how do we get him to stop? We've tried punishments, rewards, bribery you name it. They each work for a night, maybe two, but in the end he still ends up coming back.

We have a king size bed, which is good, but Trina and I still end up sleeping on our sides at the edges of the bed while Jacob is usually lying across the middle of the bed perpendicular to us. It's a good thing he's so cute otherwise he'd have been launched from that bed long ago. I guess that's part of it, he's so cute and looks like an angel when he's asleep so it's so hard to be mad at him. All I know is that this nightly program has to change and any advice anybody has will be welcomed with open arms.