Rosalie B. wrote:
> "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.
>
He complains that he is tired.
> 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.
>
He can sleep in as much as he wishes. He often wakes up having to go to
the
bathroom or whatnot.
> <snip>
>>> 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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