"Stephanie" <haaa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Penny Gaines wrote:
>The problem is that he is later tired during the day. Yawning, rubbing
eyes,
>emotional...
>
So he doesn't think he has a problem - you think he has a problem.
Would it be possible to let him sleep in so that he isn't tired later
in the day? Maybe he's just a night owl.
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>> I don't think pretend games are a problem, as long as they are all in
>> his head. Alternative methods are the old favourite of counting sheep
>> (or footballs, or just numbers). Variations are counting up to ten,
>> and then restarting from zero. Or counting backwards from some
>> number. Or doing sums.
When I was about 5, we were on a train trip and at night my 3 yo
sister asked my dad to read her a story. He said if she could stay
awake until he finished what he was doing, that he would. And try as
she would, she could not stay awake. I concluded that the best way to
put myself to sleep was to try NOT to go to sleep. And that's what I
did from then on and I still do it. I make up stories in my head and
find that I've gone to sleep pretty quickly. The only time this
doesn't work is if I'm really worried about something (like when my
son wasn't home yet or something like that) to the extent that my mind
keeps going back to that regardless of whatever else I try to think
about. Even then, if I concentrate really hard, I can at least doze
some.
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