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How do I get my child to go to sleep?
My little boy has a difficult time going to sleep at night. It seems
worse when he has something exciting like school or swimming lessons the next day. what can I do? It is really frustrating sometimes when in our house we have all had a very busy day and I just want some mommy time. Somebody please help! |
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How do I get my child to go to sleep?
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My little boy has a difficult time going to sleep at night. It seems worse when he has something exciting like school or swimming lessons the next day. what can I do? It is really frustrating sometimes when in our house we have all had a very busy day and I just want some mommy time. Somebody please help! First of all, how old is he? If he's old enough (sounds like it), you ease up a bit and make a transition between 'evening quiet time' and sleep - let him stay quietly in his room until he sleeps. Then he'll learn to get himself to sleep and calm himself, and you can have the mommy time, too. Banty |
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How do I get my child to go to sleep?
"Rebecca" wrote in message om... My little boy has a difficult time going to sleep at night. It seems worse when he has something exciting like school or swimming lessons the next day. what can I do? It is really frustrating sometimes when in our house we have all had a very busy day and I just want some mommy time. Somebody please help! My DS is a live wire at just turning 8 [and was at 2!]. At age 4.5 I instituted "grown up time", meaning that all children [I have one] must be in bed by 9 pm, but reading with lights on is allowed until 9;30 pm. Even now, as he turns 8, this is usually enough to help him unwind. Occasionally, after lights out, he appears maybe 15 minutes later to tell me he can't sleep so I let him read another 10 minutes and that *always* turns the trick. Perhaps your DS would respond to a similar system. -Aula |
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How do I get my child to go to sleep?
dragonlady wrote in
: [snip] Being too excited to sleep is pretty common; heck, I have the same problem myself sometimes. The one thing I would recommend is NOT trying to get him to go to sleep. [snip] My mother used to tell me that it didn't matter if I went to sleep, I just had to lie there and rest. -- Penny Gaines UK mum to three |
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