Yea, give him 3mg of melatonin 30 min before bed, and he should become very sleepy.
If that does not work, the natural consequence for him refusing to go to bed is being tired the next day. Personally, I'd tuck him in bed, make sure all media does not work when he tries to turn it on, get the house locked up tight with those locks out of reach, go to bed, lock your bedroom door, and ignore him. I'm not sure what your son is like, but with mine I would also tell him that he is not allowed to turn on any lights.
Oh for sure no debating. If he cant "get you" he'll give up. Maybe not tonight, but if he wins, he wins. Do as ommas says, walk him to his room, close the door, if he comes out, "NO TALKING" by the hand, back to bed, all night if you have to, but no more fighting and no more talking. Nip this in the bud befor it coninues past tonight. Just keep putting himm back in there.long shot
buy new sheets not covers unless you can afford new covers
get him involved with his sleeping ( nest ) by letting him pick or choose the sheets.
keep bath and media time at least three hours before bed time
bring down the lights in the evening to just his room and a dim light in youre area
using hand gestures and silent nods dont talk during actual bed time
ive always heard that saying nothing and keeping silent with dim light while making twenty trips back to bedroom , but if you speak its like starting over
i know this doesnt sound like traditional story time before bed . but with meds sometimes come sensitivity to stimulus and over many years this "I made you get me game" can lead to extreme aggressiveness at bed time as a normal part of the routine.
in my opinion bed time no matter what should be seperate from romp time .
the only two ways i know are to low stim or to medicate which should only be used spareingly from time to time during cycles .
if you journal all tghe behaviors you can start to see the pattern that may indicate when to me and when to just be silently stern.
i work with teens in a locked in environment , other staff thought i was nuts when i just simply raised my hand until they were so curious they had to come ask why my hand was in the air i didnt speak. i walked to thier room keeping my hand in the air. when they approached me agian i pointed to thier bed . they other staff gave planned ignore as well.
from then on when i walked on the unit after a month . they would go to bed after holding my hand in the air for only two minutes.
anyone who continued to stay up got consequinced and well thats is a different story.
ive seen the NANNY do this on those parental education shows, thats where i got the idea it worked on my dd nearly every time , so i thought i would try it there at the facility too. it doesnt always work and the new kids really have to challenge it . street teens getting treated like five year olds , but most have disorders similiar to those dicussed here. i will always say manage the stimulus wether environmental or verbal . if the environment is same everynight quiet and safe and void of stimulus everyone will start to tire. even the staff.
we really have to keep on guard for getting tired cause the kids know the silent game too. if they see a staff starting to tire they try all kinds of stuff on them.
i pretended to be asleep once head down while sitting and fake snoring. i could hear one moving around the two then five. they tried to get the keys from a staff. then i thier exciment there i was i the center of the hall standing there like the jolly green giant one hand in the air and the other pointing to thier rooms . in thier dismay they actually threw the keys at me,
when the admistaraitors questioned me as to why i pretended to be asleep . i said because i knew they were going to try something . they were too quite.
all that went on and the other nineteen kids slept right through night.
i see it this way when the bed time routine comes and it is always the same
it becomes so safe that they look forward to going to sleep more than getting stimed.
or you could just get a fan!
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