I'm having a stressball day. Glad I'm not doing the Week of Happy meme as I'd have a hard time finding something to feel happy about right now. On the other hand, maybe it would be good for me
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if so, it may be night terrors. The tend to happen 90-120 minutes after falling asleep, and take a long time (10-30 minutes) to recover from, and sometimes nothing you do will help except to be a soothing presence and help calm him. Peter has had these a few times.
On a related note, Peter may be working toward no nap. *cry* he skipped nap entirely the past two weekends and today, napped yesterday, and napped 2 or 3 days last week. I am so not ready for that!
Both of my boys resist naps at school (Matthew much more than Alex) but are so not ready to give up naps. Even if Peter seems to not want to sleep, make sure to enforce "quiet time" for everyone's sanity. He doesn't have to sleep, but this is play/read quietly alone time in your room. We limit toy choice to stuffed animals and books (so they don't wind themselves up) and have them stay in their beds. Rarely does Matthew make it the entire way through without falling asleep. Actually, he just drove me crazy yesterday; he resisted sleep all through "quiet time" and started misbehaving (talking to Alex through the door, trying to wake him up, etc). Finally I called in the big guns (Dad, who was with a client) and he had him lay down for a few minutes. He promptly fell asleep - 10 minutes before nap time was supposed to be over. Gah!
Peter sleeps better at school than he does at home. He does get quiet time at home, and they enforce it at school, too. He just thinks it's way too fun to misbehave during nap at home, coming to visit us in the middle saying "I wake up!" 45 minutes into naptime, not having gone to sleep in the first place. We don't let him get away with it, sending him back to bed, but that hasn't gotten any actual sleep out of him the past two weekends. And, as with your boys, he really shouldn't be giving up nap just yet!
What works best is running him ragged to use up his insane amounts of energy, but even the yard work we did was ineffective in eliciting sleep, and last weekend's birthday party at Goin' Bananas didn't work, either (he didn't even have cake/ice cream!).
We will have to find something that works if we are to keep our sanity and not want to strangle small children.
Sounds like it's become a game. I don't know how to turn it off. How I read this is: He's bored in bed so to entertain himself, he gets up and comes downstairs since he knows this will result in some interaction with the parents, which is what he really wants. How do you stop this
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if so, it may be night terrors. The tend to happen 90-120 minutes after falling asleep, and take a long time (10-30 minutes) to recover from, and sometimes nothing you do will help except to be a soothing presence and help calm him. Peter has had these a few times.
On a related note, Peter may be working toward no nap. *cry* he skipped nap entirely the past two weekends and today, napped yesterday, and napped 2 or 3 days last week. I am so not ready for that!
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What works best is running him ragged to use up his insane amounts of energy, but even the yard work we did was ineffective in eliciting sleep, and last weekend's birthday party at Goin' Bananas didn't work, either (he didn't even have cake/ice cream!).
We will have to find something that works if we are to keep our sanity and not want to strangle small children.
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