How to manage a child who refuse to sleep
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Hi everyone
thks for your advise. i agreed with breguet answers.
En, breguet and kaitlynangelica normally what time does your children sleep at night. how about their afternoon nap timing. -
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Sleeps 12-1am, wakes up anytime from 8 to 10, but usually 9ish. No naps since 15 mths. He's 5.5yo now. He says he can't bear to miss out on the fun. :shock:Hi everyone
thks for your advise. i agreed with breguet answers.
En, breguet and kaitlynangelica normally what time does your children sleep at night. how about their afternoon nap timing. -
He was the only one in childcare who did not sleep during the nap time. So the teacher ask him to just lie down & rest. Now he is in P1, he sleeps around 10.30 - 11.30pm. Will wake up between 8-8.30 to say goodbye to mummy before I go off to work. No matter how late he sleep (ever 2 am) he will still wake up around the same time.
No nap during the weekends. Occassionally he will nap. Just like me when our body is extremely exhausted, will we take nap to re-charge our battery. :lol: -
It used to be that my son would get knocked out at 6-7pm about once in two or three weeks and sleep all the way to his usual wake up time the next day. So I have all these movie videos that my husband and I could watch when it happened. But no longer, sigh. We're still hopeful that we can watch them at some point, but, meanwhile, they're gathering dust in the drawers.
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LucyL\" post_id=\"1935629\" time=\"1568684907\" user_id=\"165798:
Sounds like the symptoms of caffeine in the system. Check that he hasn’t been drinking any caffeinated drinks during the day. Common but normally unsuspected culprits are iced lemon tea/green tea/bubble tea/Coca Cola/Root Beer/Kickapoo/Mountain Dew.
My son's sleeping pattern changes as the grows. Now that he is ten, he is having a hard time to fall asleep before 10: P.M. He is not playing mobile games or all sorts. I asked him why can't sleep early and he just answered that his eyes are tired but his mind seems on overtime. Did you also have the same concern about your child's sleeping problem? What did you do to correct it?
If you have eliminated all of these & he is not taking afternoon nap, still drinking that healthy glass of milk which helps to bring on the sleepiness, but STILL not falling asleep, then it’s posssible he has early signs of puberty. I read somewhere that going into the teenage years, the kid’s body clock shifts into 3 hours later than his childhood. Fall asleep 3 hours later and wake up 3 hours later. -
Hi Lucy, does he nap in the afternoon?
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Try having a winding-down bedtime routine that starts about 45 mins to an hour before the desired bedtime. It could be reading something (not studying!), listening to music, some hobby etc. Nothing exciting or stimulating. The glass of milk could be part of this routine. Keep it as a fairly fixed routine which will signal "bedtime" to his brain.
Also, you can try getting him to be more active in the later afternoon, before dinner, so he’s more tired by bedtime.
Besides the physical, has anything changed in the family recently? Maybe he wants to spend more time with you parents? You could try giving him 10-15 mins of undivided attention in the evenings, just chatting, or reading together etc.
Try these one at a time and see if something works. All the best! -
dd2 seldom take afternoon nap…and when she go out to play (2 to 3 hours) she will ask to go to bed around 8pm.
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Greetings!
We are a group of students from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and we are currently doing a research project to find out the impact of sleep on a child's development, particularly those aged between 3 to 8 in Singapore.
We would greatly appreciate it if you will be able to help us with our project and provide us with information that will be useful.
All of your responses are greatly valued.
The link to the survey is: https://forms.gle/mgVRJdfJgJjUahY99
If you have any queries, do feel free to drop us an email at [email protected].
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer our questionnaire!
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Anna B\" post_id=\"1943546\" time=\"1572229860\" user_id=\"181964:[quote=\"Anna B\" post_id=1943546 time=1572229860 user_id=181964]
Greetings!
We are a group of students from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and we are currently doing a research project to find out the impact of sleep on a child's development, particularly those aged between 3 to 8 in Singapore.
We would greatly appreciate it if you will be able to help us with our project and provide us with information that will be useful.
All of your responses are greatly valued.
The link to the survey is: https://forms.gle/mgVRJdfJgJjUahY99
If you have any queries, do feel free to drop us an email at [email protected].
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer our questionnaire! :)[/quote]
Done with the survey. I hope my answer could help you with your study. We are looking forward to the results of our hard work
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