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How to make a 4 year old relax?

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MummySharkDooDooDooDoo · 03/12/2018 21:39

DD is nearly 5. She's been through a lot in her short life so far - parents separating and many hospital admissions. She is very sensitive and anxious generally. Since starting primary school she is exhausted, which is to be expected, but she doesn't seem to be able to relax and switch off so it takes forever for her to go to sleep. At bedtime it's question after question (really random things) and she will say the same thing a few times if I don't immediately respond. She's not really doing anything wrong (sometimes it will descend in to a tantrum) but she seems manic and I can't seem to get her to calm down. I've tried giving her a massage, reading to her, having a conversation that she completely leads in the hope that she will say everything that's on her mind, but nothing I do seems to work. She just can't relax. Does anyone have any other ideas?

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MummySharkDooDooDooDoo · 04/12/2018 18:33

Anyone? We're approaching bedtime and she's so agitated. I don't know what to do to help her.

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LeslieYep · 04/12/2018 18:35

Does she want to go to sleep but says she can't?
Would she be too young to listen to music or an audiobook? I went through an anxious phase in my teens, so a very different age, and I fell asleep listening to the TV.

She could lie back, close her eyes maybe with some gentle music and walk through her day either to herself or with you. She could talk it out loud or just think through what she did that day. That's what I do when I can't sleep.

I hope she calms down though, but have no experience other than my teen years.

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