How to get 10 year old to stop sleeping in parents room?

Question

my 10 year old sister has problems with getting away from her parents. she has been told some scary stories and she is very afraid of them. she is also very gullible with what people tell her, for example my cousin told her a story about a ghost hunters and she believed it. so now she wont sleep in her own room because she is afraid. what dosent help is that my parents also let her sleep in thier rooms. it seems like i am the only one in this family that has a problem with it. im really worried that it could have long term effects that can hinder her life. i dont know what to do and i was wondering if anyone knows how to get a child to stop being so dependent.

Answer 1

She is obviously scared to fall asleep alone. She needs a feeling of security which is why she sleeps with your parents. Tell your parents to try getting her a conopy, or mosquito net for her bed. Its a smaller and enclosed enviornment, so she'll feel safer.  they start at like 20.00 so what do they have to loose except a night alone... Fluffier blankets can also provide comfort...  

Answer 2

Well, if you can afford it ! Why not trying this. Buy her a nice big Teddy Bear ( not a doll), and surprise her with it ! You need to tell her the Teddy bear will give her the feeling of comfort when she sleeps with it, she can snuggle her little face into the Teddy Bear too! OH! yeah and a cute Night Light for her bedroom, offer that you'd sleep in her room for 2 nights so she'll get use to the idea. Then, tell everybody to stop telling her scary stories,and warn her before you watch anything scary on TV to please leave the room because you do not want her to have any bad dreams! Be a good sibling to your sister without getting angry! Some children have a very big imagination and are more sensitive to what they hear, see,and do during the day-that is scary to them, then their little brains work over time when they go to sleep. So, try this and see how this works out, I bet she'll love you for caring about her.  

Answer 3

Just talk to her that her paraents needs privacy. Anyway she have her own room and tell her she needs to be of her own shen she sleep because she don't need to wear diapers. lol If she is afraid of the dark just have a light on.  

Answer 4

try getting one of your friends to dress up in a fairy outfit and bring her into her room and go and put some Made up spell with some Fairy Glitter and a wond n she should be pretty much fixed  

Answer 5

Stop with the story telling and make an appointment to start seeing a counsellor, about her bad bedtime habits!  good luck

Answer 6

Well this might not work but I'll suggest it anyways. I learned in parenting class that creativity is the key. One suggestion was to spray water and call it ghost repelent to help the child sleep. However she's 10 so I doubt that would work. This is obviously difficult because she's so old. She needs to know that she needs to grow up and be a bit more independent. I guess the only suggestion I can give is to let her do more things for herself. Let her make her own decisions. Maybe that might encourage her to sleep by herself. That might work, or it might now. Sorry I can't really help but that's what I would try.

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I just got another idea. If she's so gullable, maybe tell her that invisible faries or something hang out in our rooms to protect us from ghosts or that there's sometype of force field in the room. Again I don't know if this would work. I don't know. Just think of something she will believe that will make her believe her room is safe.

Answer 7

Frankly, it's none of your business, but generally honest mocking of the scary stories and those that believe them and laughing about people who want to stay in mommy's bed past 4 years of age will do it.

Answer 8

At that age it is almost impossible if she is afraid.

And if you shelter her from anything like horror movies or scary stories soon she will get over it and you can try to get her to sleep in her room.

And you could try to be a role model. Younger kids always want to be like their older siblings even if their a pain in the butt. So if you act brave and strong she could act more brave.

Also try using a night light. Then they can see in their room and know that noting is their even when their are creepy noises.

And you should make sure all the windows are locked so she knows there's no way anyone or anything could get in.

And maybe you could sleep on the floor in her room with her for a couple nights and after a while you could start waiting until she falls asleep and then leave.

Remember that the more time you spend trying to help her instead of telling her to get over it and she's too old for it the more she will like you and want to be like you.

No more scary movies!!!!! xD

Hope this helped <3

Answer 9

get the kid a cool video game  

Answer 10

Well..me being a meanie to my sister...I would have told her that when she sleeps the rents are doing it haha.. but seriously...she needs to be in her own room  for hers and the parents sake. You may have to let them deal with it, they let her do it so they need to deal with it.. Go ahead and have a talk with her about it and see what you can do. Seems like your parents let her go this far, whats another 4 or 5 years?