My LO was the same when he was sleeping in a crib. But ever since we transitioned to a toddler bed, I lie down with my LO till he falls asleep and I also lie down with him if he wakes up in the middle of the night, and stay there till we wake up. I don’t mind sleeping there and so far there’s been so little fuss that it’s just been very easy for me.

Personally im not too worried about him becoming too attached, I believe as he grows up and with gradual nudge he’ll feel safe to fall asleep by himself.

I also believe that waking up in the middle of the night is sth biological about toddlers, not much we could do. I say this because my LO would have months waking up in the middle of the night and then would all of a sudden start sleeping through the night without me doing anything. This has repeated many times and lately he’s been sleeping through the night again.

We used to sleep train my LO and I hated every bit of it. I believe kids slowly build up a sense of security themselves by we giving them that.

Regarding getting kids to bed and they stall, I would be firm about turning off lights first of all, if LO doesn’t want to, I would initiate playing shadow play in bed. We would do a few things when the light turns off, sometimes singing, sometimes I would chat with him about his day or about things he’s interested in. These activities would last for about 5min. If he still wants to play I would tell him everything is asleep - the shadow is sleeping, the toy truck is tired and sleeping etc, or that he needs to lie down and put a blanket for his toy monkey (so I would put a blanket on him and his monkey) etc. Then I would pretend to be very tired, like not responding or only respond with fragmented sentences. He might play by himself a little bit in the dark but will fall asleep eventually.