I have posted other things in the past, but different issues.
So although in recent months I guess I could say DS has got up and said I had a bad dream, and rightly or wrongly I have let him get in with me. I know many say you should escort back to bed etc.
Now just out of the blue, since last end of weekend, I have written about issues to do with weekends, but never had this.
Where DS had been in bed for a while but I thought he had gone to sleep, and then came out to me, to tell me he couldn’t sleep.
I know from previous occasions where he had hopped in my bed to read etc and done it because he wanted to stay, that maybe it was a build up to something.
But not knowing what to do or try, I let him go in my bed.
The next night he was fine as usual, slept in his bed, the night after that, or the one after that, same issue again. And it got late as I had hoped he would sleep in his bed, and I had to shower etc, but he had just waited for me to come out, and was getting more distressed as of course really he was tired.
But has said throughout this time that his brain feels like it can’t sleep/that he will be up until midnight. But to me some of that is to get his own way, because then if that’s the case, how can he sleep in my bed easily.
He has said about his bed being too small mine is of course more solid and a double.
But really his to a single is not a lot of difference width wise.
Then he was at my mums and did the same thing, and my mum ended up putting him in with my Dad as he was already in bed.
But the next night he slept in the bed he has there.
I straight away jump to issues there could be, as I know this is not the only thing.
I am in the slow process of trying to get an ADHD assessment done. And also got something coming up for parents where all the services will be there, it’s like a drop in thing which will be good to talk to someone.
But I just wondered what others experiences have been, has this happened to you. Causes/solutions etc.
I have read all about the calm/evening routine/doing quiet tasks and also been suggested to do a points thing where he gets a point for each night he goes to bed etc well and sleeps in his bed.