To drug my 12 yo?!

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He is absolutely manic with excitement - despite this year knowing for sure that Santa isn't real. He hasn't stopped making noise since about 9 o'clock this morning, has been jumping around like a loon, has spent the last 10 minutes singing a song to the tap on the bathroom sink (yup!) and has gone upstairs with his empty stocking on his arm, pretending to be a snake!

Is it really so bad to give children sedatives? Some valium, for instance...

Although tbh, if I actually had any valium, I would probably be taking it myself tonight!

Awww isn't that lovely that he's not too big to show his excitement?!

... And he has just 'phoned me from his bed to say "If I really, really, really can't sleep, can I open my stocking after, say, 5am"!
(And where's the emoticon for 'totally knackered' MNHQ, hmm?!)

Yes, it's lovely apostrophe :) But my goodness, it's exhausting!

Mine is creaking about outside the livingroom door, he must think I am deaf/daft both!

I cannot drug mine sadly, he had an anesthetic this year, freaked me out big time, it was like seeing a child on Valium!

I am a bit jealous, mine doesn't do exited. He went to bed and straight to sleep.

I like having a chilled DS but just once I would like to see him get exited.

My mum used to give me and my brother those travel sickness pills that make you drowsy on Xmas eve, phenangan or something like that.

Not that I'm suggesting you do it though mind! Mine went to bed ok thank goodness

Brownie you can't buy that over the counter any more.

Bastards

brownie! How fiendishly clever and inspired utterly shocking!

Next year though - antihistamines work I believe, well they work on me!

Mine in is the loo again....

Sock Is there nothing legal we can drug our children with these days?! Surely that's an infringement of our civil liberties or summat?!

Oh I remember that medicine what was it now.......

Mediced! That was good stuff, then they banned it I think or my Dc started sleeping...

let's protest.

Or just invite my aunt Mavis round she could suck the fun out of anyone

Ahhhh yes, Medised. I remember thinking how immoral it was to drug your kids when my DCs were small, Wank. Deluded self-righteous fool that I was!

Thanks for the offer of your Dementor auntie sock, but that won't do it: I don't want rid of the fun, just of the bounce and noise... Surely by 12 he should be able to be excited in a calm and dignified manner?!

I was the same... I was also scared they would become immune to it tbh! Once a month maximum. Then the Chemist asked many confusing questions so I couldn't get it...I never had the correct answers!

My 8 year old knows Santa has been, he just came down stairs...I sent him back up,maybe I should have let him open one.

Brownie, we were given them too!

Sheepishly looks around and covertly whispers

I've got a few bottles of medised in my kitchen cupboard.

In all fairness I've never used them on the kids only on the aunt

Don't talk rubbish Santa has not got to the uk yet. I'm stalking him online

whispers < Pass one here, sock.
Please please pretty please?!

Ahh bless him, he sounds like a kid with a good sense of humor.

SSShhh Sock Someone has been here, re-arranging presents to make piles look equal!!

Loves his eyes lighting up!! Yay!

Flow your welcome to it, some how I doubt aunt Mavis will be back requiring it again

Is he even pretending to go to bed yet?

I bloody hope Santa gets here soon cos I'm knackered and I want to go to bed!
DS1 is 17, so there is no chance of Santa visiting before he goes to sleep.
I have negotiated stockings outside bedroom doors this year, instead of at foots (feet?) of beds, so some sneaking might be possible before they're snoring!