7yr old in right state refusing to sleep tonight because he has nightnares.

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I don't know what to do - he has been screaming and shouting and losing it for the last 30 mins.

Dh trying to deal with it in what I feel is the wrong way - all getting agresive and worked up.

I don't know what to do .

Help please.

quick!

Do you have a story tape you can listen with him in bed?

leave a light on and leave him in bed with a book - he'll nod off when he's tired and has realised that nothings going to get him. I agtee with you, getting worked up and angry is just fuelling his fears

What about some music on too or the radio just for a bit of comfort. Perhaps give him a torch to make funny shadows on the wall

Getting cross never gets you what you want but it's generally frustration that leads us to it.

thanks for emergancy help.

DH calmly told to leave and have calmed him down a bit.

The deal is he has a story tape on and the light and he can read as much as he likes BUT he is still determined that he is not going to sleep tonight.

Have decided to sett he alarm for 6:30 tomorrow and make them get up. Have lots of exercise tomorrow and see if I can wear them out a bit. Maybe had a bit too much staying in (lots of family visiting etc.)

Is it night terrors do you think? Does he remember it next day? Does he seem totally lucid? Ds had these and although it really seemed as if he was awake he wasn't, absolutely not, and he had NO IDEA he was doing it. It was quite a worry at the time but he doesn't have them any more, thank goodness.

www - had not thought about that, hmmm, well he comes and wakes me up and says he has had really bad dreams and then lies awake for a while.

He is 7. When did yours grow out of nightmares?

He had night terrors (which are awful, really scary, will find the thread in a minute) last year when I worked away for 6 months, so he was 8 when they started and they went again more or less when I came back, so January, when he was 8.3mnths

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