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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 393821" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>As you said, sleep is important. I wonder if that is what ages us so fast when we become parents - our lack of sleep. When my kids were born I remember this great bit of advice - sleep when the baby sleeps. But what if your baby doesn't sleep? And what about all the stuff that you can't do while the kid is awake and underfoot? You can't let things slide forever.</p><p></p><p>I use the iPod to get myself to sleep sometimes. Not white noise, but I put on a book. I find I never get to hear much of the book, it puts me to sleep. difficult child 1 used to do the same, he had trouble sleeping so he would put his iPod on. Trouble was, his ear buds leaked a lot of sound and with difficult child 3 in the same room with sensory sensitivity, he would complain about the sound of difficult child 1's iPod! So one would be asleep, the other awake and complaining. Then the other would wake and threaten to kill his brother... meanwhile husband or I were desperately trying to get our own sleep but needing to referee WWIII!</p><p></p><p>Now it's difficult child 3 who doesn't sleep properly. I am very sensitive to noise and light at night, I have to sleep with ear plugs. When we were trying to monitor easy child 2/difficult child 2's precocious sexual behaviour, we needed to take turns as parents standing guard. No chance to catch up on sleep because she was waiting for us to nod off so she could sneak out to her boyfriend. I had to give up on my ear plugs back then. It didn't take us long to cave, and get her on the Pill.</p><p></p><p>With difficult child 3 now, he is supposed to be in bed before midnight. He gets 15 mins reward time if he is in bed by 11.30 pm, and 5 mins if it is after 11.30 but before midnight. Even so, he is often up late and the light under the door keeps me awake because I know difficult child 3 is not in bed yet. We have a deal with his psychologist that we will wake difficult child 3 every morning at the normal time anyway (he gets an extra hour on non-school days) but it is still a huge task to get difficult child 3 up in the mornings without him getting violent and verbally abusive. He has an alarm clock - I hear it repeatedly chime; he hits snooze; it chimes again a short while later; he hits snooze again - I think we need the kind of alarm clock that jumps off the table and runs around the room screaming. You have to find the detachable gizmo and put it back on the base station for the alarm to shut off. Only difficult child 3's room is not suitable for it. There is a helicopter version...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 393821, member: 1991"] As you said, sleep is important. I wonder if that is what ages us so fast when we become parents - our lack of sleep. When my kids were born I remember this great bit of advice - sleep when the baby sleeps. But what if your baby doesn't sleep? And what about all the stuff that you can't do while the kid is awake and underfoot? You can't let things slide forever. I use the iPod to get myself to sleep sometimes. Not white noise, but I put on a book. I find I never get to hear much of the book, it puts me to sleep. difficult child 1 used to do the same, he had trouble sleeping so he would put his iPod on. Trouble was, his ear buds leaked a lot of sound and with difficult child 3 in the same room with sensory sensitivity, he would complain about the sound of difficult child 1's iPod! So one would be asleep, the other awake and complaining. Then the other would wake and threaten to kill his brother... meanwhile husband or I were desperately trying to get our own sleep but needing to referee WWIII! Now it's difficult child 3 who doesn't sleep properly. I am very sensitive to noise and light at night, I have to sleep with ear plugs. When we were trying to monitor easy child 2/difficult child 2's precocious sexual behaviour, we needed to take turns as parents standing guard. No chance to catch up on sleep because she was waiting for us to nod off so she could sneak out to her boyfriend. I had to give up on my ear plugs back then. It didn't take us long to cave, and get her on the Pill. With difficult child 3 now, he is supposed to be in bed before midnight. He gets 15 mins reward time if he is in bed by 11.30 pm, and 5 mins if it is after 11.30 but before midnight. Even so, he is often up late and the light under the door keeps me awake because I know difficult child 3 is not in bed yet. We have a deal with his psychologist that we will wake difficult child 3 every morning at the normal time anyway (he gets an extra hour on non-school days) but it is still a huge task to get difficult child 3 up in the mornings without him getting violent and verbally abusive. He has an alarm clock - I hear it repeatedly chime; he hits snooze; it chimes again a short while later; he hits snooze again - I think we need the kind of alarm clock that jumps off the table and runs around the room screaming. You have to find the detachable gizmo and put it back on the base station for the alarm to shut off. Only difficult child 3's room is not suitable for it. There is a helicopter version... Marg [/QUOTE]
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