Q. After years of sleeping on her own, a year and a half ago, my daughter, then 10, insisted she was too scared to sleep in her own room. I resisted having her sleep with me, but she would crumble outside my door sobbing, screaming, clearly distraught. Finally, I gave in and let her sleep with me. She is now 12, and though I have tried bribing her (promising her the cell phone she wants if she sleeps in her own bed for three months straight) to doing all I can to help her feel secure, she won ...

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