Link to the Show / Show NotesFamily Bed 1A few minutes on the family bed--the family bed means sleeping with your kids when they're infants and toddlers. When and how the family bed ends exactly is the big question now. We are assuming that when they go to college, they'll be used to sleeping by themselves. The books are a bit vague on how it is supposed to end. Or perhaps they are simply lying. The kids now start out in their own beds (they're 7 and 5) and drift over to our beds sometime in the night, most of the time. But for a long time, it was the four of us. I barely scratch the surface of the joys and horrors of the family bed in this 4 minute podcast, which you can listen to by clickinghere.