Kristin Cavallari is pulling back the covers on her family's bedtime routine.
On the Aug. 26 episode of her "Let's Be Honest" podcast, Cavallari opened up about co-sleeping with her 11-year-old son, Jaxon, and her 9-year-old daughter, Saylor. She said she gives each a night with her every week -- though they'd like more!
"I was like, guys, I need a night by myself," she said.
Adjusting hasn't been easy for Jaxon. Before Cavallari, 38, moved him into a room with his 13-year-old brother, Camden, she said he was crashing with her every evening.
"The problem is in the morning, because I get up before them, and then I have to be so quiet in my bathroom, like brushing my teeth, and washing my face, and getting dressed," she explained. "I want to be able to have the freedom to move about my room and get dressed in the morning without worrying about waking someone up."
Cavallari suspects that Jaxon's sleep issues stem from a fear of missing out (FOMO) that he's had since he was a little boy.
"I mean, he would only take 30-minute naps," she said. And it got even trickier when he learned to walk and discovered he could climb out of his bed to be with her.
"He came in my room, I'm not kidding, guys -- every single night for four years," she said.
Liz Nissim-Matheis, a clinical psychologist in New Jersey, previously told TODAY.com it's best to end co-sleeping when a person reaches puberty, or at around 11.
"Once we get into that territory of bodies changing, that's when you really want to take a step back and say, 'What is going on here? How can we work through this anxiety?" Nissim-Matheis explained. "Ultimately, you want to promote our child's ability to self-soothe and to eventually live independently."
But everyone should do what works for their own family, Nissim-Matheis added.