Just that really.
Back story.
He has just got up for a wee and clearly hasn't yet been to sleep. This is despite a bed time, being a later one, of 8:45, usually 7:30/8, was 8/8:30 until recently when a spate of bad behaviour was attributed, by him, to being tired.
I took this to mean he needed an earlier bed time again but I'm now wondering if it's because he isn't sleeping for a long time after getting into bed. Until last May I would always pop my head in and check him, but in May we got him a bunk bed with a solid side and I can no longer see him and found I disturbed him if I tried to check he was ok/asleep so stopped.
Any suggestions?
I asked him why he couldn't sleep and if I could do anything to help him sleep now and better in future. He said nothing.
He used to have a book to read to settle but we found he just stayed up reading/looking at them. So gave this cooling down time a time limit with a timer but again he could stay awake for a long time after it went off. And then the timer just dwindled/proved to not be that useful I suppose as it's not used any more.
I'm worried as a child this young can't manage on such little sleep surely?
We always have a bed time routine of pjs, teeth and story btw.
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9 yr old DS can't sleep.
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RequestInUse · 26/05/2016 23:44
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