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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 485532" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Buddy, your docs sound smart. Sleep is a huge issue in my opinion, or rather lack thereof for various reasons. Sleep deprivation can cause a host of issues including psychosis if one is sleep deprived enough. </p><p></p><p>Many kids today (and heck even back when I was a kid) don't get anywhere near the amount of sleep they should get per night.....including pcs. I know tons of parents who don't even have bedtimes for their kids and those kids are up until midnight or later and yet have to get up before 7am (usually earlier from 5am on) for school each day. Lack of sleep can cause mood swings, general grumpiness and uncooperation, not just falling asleep in class....as well as those mood swings it can cause over emotional reactions from tears to rage to depression. </p><p></p><p>Your brain <strong>needs</strong> that down time. Not just for rest but to de stress itself from daily events ect. </p><p></p><p>As a child who had to get up at 4:30 am each morning and no bedtime, it didn't take me long even as a little kid to go to bed on my own at a fairly early hour. I couldn't think properly without sleep.....and the whole face plant on the desk was no fun either. lol </p><p></p><p>Aubrey has some mighty strong difficult child behaviors. I won't label her a difficult child because much of these behaviors are from sleep deprivation. Nichole has her on a early bedtime, no problem. But she wakes several times a night at best which interrupts her REM sleep and when she does sleep it's not usually a deep sleep. One good night's sleep and she's a different child. Her sleep issues are allergy related.......that lovely drip drip you get going in the back of the throat and tonsil related.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 485532, member: 84"] Buddy, your docs sound smart. Sleep is a huge issue in my opinion, or rather lack thereof for various reasons. Sleep deprivation can cause a host of issues including psychosis if one is sleep deprived enough. Many kids today (and heck even back when I was a kid) don't get anywhere near the amount of sleep they should get per night.....including pcs. I know tons of parents who don't even have bedtimes for their kids and those kids are up until midnight or later and yet have to get up before 7am (usually earlier from 5am on) for school each day. Lack of sleep can cause mood swings, general grumpiness and uncooperation, not just falling asleep in class....as well as those mood swings it can cause over emotional reactions from tears to rage to depression. Your brain [B]needs[/B] that down time. Not just for rest but to de stress itself from daily events ect. As a child who had to get up at 4:30 am each morning and no bedtime, it didn't take me long even as a little kid to go to bed on my own at a fairly early hour. I couldn't think properly without sleep.....and the whole face plant on the desk was no fun either. lol Aubrey has some mighty strong difficult child behaviors. I won't label her a difficult child because much of these behaviors are from sleep deprivation. Nichole has her on a early bedtime, no problem. But she wakes several times a night at best which interrupts her REM sleep and when she does sleep it's not usually a deep sleep. One good night's sleep and she's a different child. Her sleep issues are allergy related.......that lovely drip drip you get going in the back of the throat and tonsil related. [/QUOTE]
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