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Hi there my six yr old son has trouble sleeping at nite he goes to bed at seven colours until half seven and still awake at 9.45 on somenites. Ive tryed meds frm the doc phanerghan that dont work please I need help
Will do he has a busy day at school he seems to like milk cold not warm bfre bed as the doctor advised me on that so he will have a vusy six weeks holiday active one
Thank u hes got docs to see if there's anything else his doing a sleep diary wiv school
Just wanted to comment on exercise---- I have two boys. Oh my gosh, the energy!! Every day, when my kids were 6, we went to parks after school, swimming, ran laps around the yard, jumped on the trampoline, etc. We spent a good couple of hours after school doing physical activity as they just needed it. Now my boys are a bit older--- age 9 and 10 and they have daily sports that they participate in. Practices that are 1 to 3 hours long (yes, 3 hours). Today they did a 4 hour sports camp in the morning and we are off to the pool to swim now after. Kids have THAT much energy. And my boys do always sleep better for me when we've made an effort to burn it off with physical activity. Especially when school is in session and they are expected to sit during that.
I think people are actually trying to be helpful verses judgmental. No one really cares what time another person puts their child to bed. It's not a bad thing to put a child to bed early. Rather, you were asking a question about your son's resistance to sleep and part of that might be an unrealistically early bed time. My kids at that age went to bed at 8:30 as yours sometimes does and that was considered a good night's sleep in my book. I don't know if saying somewhere in between when he goes to bed--- and when you want him in bed, if you met somewhere in the middle and made 8 pm his bed time if that would work??? But the goal is to get him to go down a little easier for you.
Also have never heard of Phenergan being given to a child as that wouldn't happen in the US. It's a controlled substance meaning our govt. puts restrictions on it due to things like it being addictive. What I do hear people using is a natural substance, melatonin. That might be something better to look into. ?? Or maybe better isn't the right word, but an alternative.
Good luck. Again, I am all for a parent successfully putting their child to bed ---- but have known many children to need less sleep than 12 plus hours at the age of 6. More power to you if you can get him to do it but it is not surprising he's having trouble falling to sleep at that time. Or kids who fall asleep at that time then often wake really early like 5 am. good luck
I think people are actually trying to be helpful verses judgmental. No one really cares what time another person puts their child to bed. It's not a bad thing to put a child to bed early. Rather, you were asking a question about your son's resistance to sleep and part of that might be an unrealistically early bed time. My kids at that age went to bed at 8:30 as yours sometimes does and that was considered a good night's sleep in my book. I don't know if saying somewhere in between when he goes to bed--- and when you want him in bed, if you met somewhere in the middle and made 8 pm his bed time if that would work??? But the goal is to get him to go down a little easier for you.
Also have never heard of Phenergan being given to a child as that wouldn't happen in the US. It's a controlled substance meaning our govt. puts restrictions on it due to things like it being addictive. What I do hear people using is a natural substance, melatonin. That might be something better to look into. ?? Or maybe better isn't the right word, but an alternative.
Good luck. Again, I am all for a parent successfully putting their child to bed ---- but have known many children to need less sleep than 12 plus hours at the age of 6. More power to you if you can get him to do it but it is not surprising he's having trouble falling to sleep at that time. Or kids who fall asleep at that time then often wake really early like 5 am. good luck
I will do at least ppl aint judgeing me over this has I do need some guidance over this. But thank u mark lakewood3367 hes seein the docs end of month but I will keep u posted
Thats his routine time as the doctor told me on a school nite he gets up at 7.45 on a school day and I think thats good.just started since there was problems I rang the docs yesterday that I need to c the doc over the meds dont work and to see if they can get him sleep tharapy he has plenty of exercise walking into town and running arnd at school sonme nites he will go at half eight and still get up for school
It strikes me that for age 6, even 7:30 pm is a very early bedtime unless he gets up at 6 am.
Get him a lot of physical exercise. Kids who are genuinely tired, usually sleep. But don't expect more than 11 hours at this age.
And don't expect drugs to work alone -- if he is not getting much exercise (even running laps back and forth) he will not be tired enough to sleep. Get him moving to the point of sweating, every day.
Get him a lot of physical exercise. Kids who are genuinely tired, usually sleep. But don't expect more than 11 hours at this age.
And don't expect drugs to work alone -- if he is not getting much exercise (even running laps back and forth) he will not be tired enough to sleep. Get him moving to the point of sweating, every day.
Has he always had problems sleeping at night? Did you tell the doctor that the current meds don't work? If so, what did the doctor say after you told him/her?
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