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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 65273" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>First of all, I want to second the comments from other posters about the IEP, The Explosive Child, help with the discipline, etc.</p><p></p><p>My difficult child has struggled with sleep all his life, mainly due to anxiety, as one other poster (BBK, I think), mentioned.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if part of your little one's sleep-rebellion is due to anxiety too. For years, difficult child would have what my husband and I call "encores". After a big fight to get him into bed in the first place, he would be back out every 10 minutes. Asking for water, complaining that there were spiders in his room, pitching a fit, ANYTHING to keep from going to bed. He will be 18 in the fall, and he still regularly has trouble with this.</p><p></p><p>The thing that has worked best for us have been a very strict routine. For example: shower at 7:30 pm, a bit of free time doing quiet things such as reading or working on a jigsaw puzzle, and then straight into bed at 9:00. We leave such a long time between shower and bed because it still gives us plenty of time to have the bedtime battle, if the shower thing didn't go very well. We post lists and schedules and reminders on walls around the house, and provide a lot of prompting.</p><p></p><p>Arguing about anything, even little things, just doesn't seem to help. Sometimes I find that eliminating words altogether works better than trying to talk my difficult child around. Although he can talk the hind legs off a mule, he has trouble processing words and his ODD makes him just want to fight everything I tell him. If I stand and point at the chart, it stops a lot of the nagging and makes it easier for difficult child to remember what he's supposed to do.</p><p></p><p>I wish you all the best with everything you're having to deal with last night. Try to find some time to look after yourself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 65273, member: 3907"] First of all, I want to second the comments from other posters about the IEP, The Explosive Child, help with the discipline, etc. My difficult child has struggled with sleep all his life, mainly due to anxiety, as one other poster (BBK, I think), mentioned. I wonder if part of your little one's sleep-rebellion is due to anxiety too. For years, difficult child would have what my husband and I call "encores". After a big fight to get him into bed in the first place, he would be back out every 10 minutes. Asking for water, complaining that there were spiders in his room, pitching a fit, ANYTHING to keep from going to bed. He will be 18 in the fall, and he still regularly has trouble with this. The thing that has worked best for us have been a very strict routine. For example: shower at 7:30 pm, a bit of free time doing quiet things such as reading or working on a jigsaw puzzle, and then straight into bed at 9:00. We leave such a long time between shower and bed because it still gives us plenty of time to have the bedtime battle, if the shower thing didn't go very well. We post lists and schedules and reminders on walls around the house, and provide a lot of prompting. Arguing about anything, even little things, just doesn't seem to help. Sometimes I find that eliminating words altogether works better than trying to talk my difficult child around. Although he can talk the hind legs off a mule, he has trouble processing words and his ODD makes him just want to fight everything I tell him. If I stand and point at the chart, it stops a lot of the nagging and makes it easier for difficult child to remember what he's supposed to do. I wish you all the best with everything you're having to deal with last night. Try to find some time to look after yourself. [/QUOTE]
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