Of-late I am finding that Aasim is fighting sleep a lot – his eyes are red and sleepy by 8 PM but he manages to stay awake till midnight. and sometime even past midnight Earlier I had attributed to his staying indoors in summer and not getting tired, but since his skating camp began, he does get tired.
I hate to scold him to go to bed – I feel a child should not go to bed crying. He already knows all the stories he should by heart still makes me read at-least 5 of them every night and still refuses to sleep. As I write this, he is roaming around the house sleepy eyed, refusing to go any where near his bed…
Of-late I am finding that Aasim is fighting sleep a lot – his eyes are red and sleepy by 8 PM but he manages to stay awake till midnight.
You shouldn’t let him read our journals 😉
But seriously, its been bad in my case only recently. If I get home early, its usually pretty ok.
With my brother, we usually talk ourselves to sleep. We talk about the day’s events or how some TV show was stupid or anything. We talk as equals just participating in some aimless discussion. And during this time, we aren’t trying to put ourselves to sleep. Eventually, talk dies, and when that happens, sleep comes…
Very often, boredom is a sleep preventer. That maybe another factor.
just my 0.02.
>You shouldn’t let him read our journals 😉
Thank God he cant read yet!!
>Very often, boredom is a sleep preventer. That maybe another factor.
That could be one of the reasons indeed – he does not have any friends in the neigbourhood and his only recreation is his games/edu CD’s, cartoon movies, playing in the office and his skating classes
I also noticed that he does not sleep if he keeps watching cartoons on TV
With Anjali, we made a remarkable discovery – she often refused to go to sleep (and still does at 12) if she could see/hear other people awake around her.
This caused issues because I used to work very late then, and was working from home.
We solved the issue by simply crashing out by 10pm. All lights off, everyone in bed. She would go to sleep as well, and I would get up an hour later and continue my work.
When we moved to our new residence, with office on the ground floor and home on the first, things were a wee bit easier because she could not actually see me working.
Nowadays, office is 6 KM away, and when I come home, I watch TV for a while (usually till midnight) after dinner. At 00:05 I am in bed with lights off. And guess who goes to sleep at the same time? 😉
In short – if the kid refuses to sleep, there is usually a good reason for it – and you are probably it. In fact, I know – since I can see you online at weird hours. If you are awake, so is the kid. And no amount of reasoning/arguing is going to fix that.
I tried going to bed at his bed time with a resolve to get up and work as soon as he sleeps but in vain. Most of the times I fall asleep sooner than he does 🙁
His sleep pattern is pretty normal with his schools on. Goes to bed at 8.30 PM and wakes up by 7:30 – 8 AM It changed the moment his summer vac began.
Most of the times I fall asleep sooner than he does 🙁
Looks like you need the sleep more deparately than he does.
When you say “in vain” does it mean even after everyone has gone to bed and the lights are off, he refuses to “switch off”?
The only time we had that problem when something *was* keeping Anjali awake – turned out to be Coke, that she had started drinking in the holidays.
>Looks like you need the sleep more deparately than he does.
AAMOF I do. I have to wake up at 6.45 AM every day and dont get time to rest till bed time.
>When you say “in vain” does it mean even after everyone has gone to bed and the lights are >off, he refuses to “switch off”?
Yes, even after me and tarique sleep switiching off the lights – the problem is his lamp is near his bed and he switches it on picks up a book and reads or picks up toys from his cupboard and plays…
>The only time we had that problem when something *was* keeping Anjali awake – turned out to >be Coke, that she had started drinking in the holidays.
Well.. he is addicted to coke and now that you tell me – yes, the worst days are when he has more than a glass (250ml)of coke around dinner time which he does fairly regularly… time to enforce a ban on coke at home
Well.. he is addicted to coke and now that you tell me – yes, the worst days are when he has more than a glass (250ml)of coke around dinner time which he does fairly regularly… time to enforce a ban on coke at home
I weigh 112 Kilos. Half a glass (100 ml) of Coke after 5pm will ensure that I cannot sleep all night.
I wonder what effect 250 ml of Coke would have on a kid one tenth my age and one fifth my weight? Maybe you should ask a doctor… 😉