Stephanie wrote:
> Anyone have an insight into learning to meditate?
I do not. Sorry. We have not tried that. I don't really know how to
meditate myself so I really don't know how to teach a kid that. We
tried message (which he likes but didn't work), relaxing music and white
noise but that did not work and he didn't even like it that much.
Like Rosalie said - swimming is awesome. We did not do a lot of that
last year because it was so difficult with the little boys and we had
more sleep problems. I'm wondering now if that isn't the resistance on
the muscles. I wonder if pu****ng/pulling heavy loads would have a
similar result? Anyway - that is when I asked my ped about the
melatonin. My son takes an ADHD medication during the school year that
has insomnia as a side effect but he only experiences that in the first
month of taking it, after that he seems to have more trouble falling
asleep when he is not on the med. We tried no screen time (I have a no
computer/TV rule on M-F during the school year), regular wake up and go
to bed times and routines, I used to read to him for up to 45 minutes or
so each night, looking at books on his own. I have not fiddled with his
diet. The cutting out milk suggestion was interesting. He doesn't have
allergies but he eats cereal nearly every night before bed. Any stress
or school pressure makes it worse. That is hard because he is either
unable to identify it as stress or unwilling to talk about it. I hope
that changes a bit as he gets older. I don't mean to blab on about my
own kid - I mainly just want to share that I totally get what you are
talking about. My son will lay there for *hours*, awake in his bed.
Recently he has started waking up in the middle of the night - which is
even worse. I hope that goes away when we get the routine going again.
Good luck. I've been watching the thread closely too. My other son
sometimes takes what I consider a long time to fall asleep but it isn't
terrible. It takes him sometimes 45 minutes, which seems like along
time for a 7yo, but he does fall asleep so I don't worry about him.
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Nikki, mama to 4 boys
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