{"id":32251,"date":"2025-07-22T04:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32251"},"modified":"2025-07-22T04:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:24:11","slug":"sharing-a-bed-with-your-kid-its-totally-normal-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=32251","title":{"rendered":"Sharing a Bed With Your Kid? It\u2019s Totally Normal in Asia."},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the United States and some other Western countries, many parents wince at the idea of sharing a bed with their young child on a regular basis.<\/p>\n

But in other places, long-term bed sharing through infancy, toddlerhood and beyond is seen as totally normal. For many families in Asia, in particular, the question is not whether to do it, but when to stop.<\/p>\n

How and where young children sleep is a big deal for the whole family. It can have implications for an infant\u2019s safety and a child\u2019s development. It can also affect parental sleep, intimacy and mental health, and can influence how families configure their homes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ho Kin Ing, right, and her husband Tan Peng Yong with their daughters at home in Singapore.<\/span>Ore Huiying for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In South Korea, many parents bed share because they want to savor a close relationship with young children \u201cwho one day won\u2019t need them anymore,\u201d said Inae Kim, an office manager in Seoul. She sleeps in two adjacent king-size beds with her husband and their two girls, ages 5 and 7.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThey want to enjoy the moment,\u201d Ms. Kim, 40, said over an iced latte in her high-rise apartment complex. Though her girls slept in cribs until they were 6 months old, they\u2019ve grown up bed sharing with their parents.<\/p>\n

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In the United States and some other Western countries, many parents wince at the idea of sharing a bed with their young child on a regular basis.But in other places, long-term bed sharing through infancy, toddlerhood and beyond is seen as totally normal. For many families in Asia, in particular, the question is not whether to do it, but when to stop.How and where young children sleep is a big deal for the whole family. It can have implications for an infant\u2019s safety and a child\u2019s development. It can also affect parental sleep, intimacy and mental health, and can influence how families configure their homes.Ho Kin Ing, right, and her husband Tan Peng Yong with their daughters at home in Singapore.Ore Huiying for The New York TimesIn South Korea, many parents bed share because they want to savor a close relationship with young children \u201cwho one day won\u2019t need them anymore,\u201d said Inae Kim, an office manager in Seoul. She sleeps in two adjacent king-size beds with her husband and their two girls, ages 5 and 7.\u201cThey want to enjoy the moment,\u201d Ms. Kim, 40, said over an iced latte in her high-rise apartment complex. Though her girls slept in cribs until they were 6 months old, they\u2019ve grown up bed sharing with their parents.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32253,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32254,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32251\/revisions\/32254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}