Sleep is a universal and individual embodied experience, yet also embedded in and shaped by social and cultural norms, interactions and structures. Young children’s sleep (or lack thereof) has been typically construed in western societies from the adult point of view as a problematized and medicalized type of strain, with adverse outcomes for children and their parents. Few studies however have strived to delineate young children’s points of view regarding their own sleep experiences in the context of family relationships. This qualitative study contributes to the sociological literature by exploring how young children and their parents in Jewish two-parent families in Israel experience, perceive and manage sleep in their family. In order to incorporate all family members’ points of view on sleep in their family, the data collection process included conversations with young children about various aspects of their sleep, including “guided tours” of their home and sleeping areas, as well as in-depth interviews with each parent separately. Preliminary findings indicate that children ascribed different meanings than their parents to sleep. In most cases, the children viewed sleep as a dull or fear-provoking nuisance. Congruently, even though all the children interviewed began their nighttime sleep in separate beds and bedrooms from their parents, many described moving into the parents’ vicinity at some stage during the night. Thus, nighttime afforded children repose from the highly regulated spatial and temporal configurations of family life, which parents upheld during daytime. Under cover of darkness, children acted as skillful agents in crossing the spatial and social borders set and enforced by adults. Since most parents described feeling powerless in preventing these sleep sojourns due to their own sleepiness, sleep sojourning is a valuable case study of how inter-embodied sleep serves to shake up generational power dynamics.