Ideas please for 6 yr old ds behaviour!

[Waitingforsleep]

Please give me some strategies!
He is a refuser no dx. Currently refusing to go to bed. Never wants to go to bed.
I feel I do not have control.
Help!

I have just given him no attention so he has fallen asleep on our bedroom floor. Maybe if I do this for a few nights he will get fed up of not getting any attention for his argumentative behaviour.
But what about everything else!

Ugh, you have my sympathy. we went through hell with bedtime avoidance when DS was about 3/4.

Think it's worth starting with an acceptance that you can't force a child to go to sleep, but they will sleep (eventually) when they're tired and calm enough. With that in mind, I would see if there's any scope to re-set his body-clock slightly by waking him up earlier. I'd also try negotiating with him, maybe allow him to stay up late and read in bed for a while but no TV or iPad.

Good luck with it though, I know it's not easy!

I did what you did. As long as they were in bedroom I left them to get on with it - after the bath and story etc. I put very low watt bulb in bedroom so it was nice a dim