The sleepless house

My hubby can fall asleep in less than 5 minutes. I usually take at least an hour.

One of the kids takes after hubby, thank the lord.

The other two have a lot of trouble falling asleep.

The big girl often says she's up for hours. She seems to have figured out how to deal with it, and hasn't complained for awhile. I'm sure the ipad in the bedroom both makes it harder to fall asleep, and whiles away the hours of sleeplessness. I remember reading for hours when I was a teen.

This year the little boy is having a lot of trouble. He's almost 10 now, so maybe hormones are kicking in. It seems to come in waves, with weeks of complaining that he's up for 'hours', then weeks where he falls asleep after only an hour and a half.

We have tried cutting back on TV and computer time after dinner to see if that would help. Its hard to tell, since this family can't sustain it for very long. We are a screen family, for better or for worse. I have given in, and let the screen rule. It is the most horrendous fight, with every member of the family, to go even 3 days with no screen time after dinner.

Little boys problem is made worse by his fear of the dark and the scary things out there. And that means that I have to stay up until he's asleep, or he just keeps coming into my room. He used to share a room with his sister, which really helped. Now the two girls are sharing, and he's on his own, and on the main floor by himself. Not really anywhere else to move him to, unless we squeeze him into the girls room. Which I may have to do.

We were having a wonderful couple of weeks where I could go to bed at 10:30pm to get 7 hours of sleep. Now he's up to 11, 11:30pm. I'm getting sleep deprived, lol. And so is he, of course. Maybe we will stick him in with the girls at night for a week or two, until he relaxes again.

Ahhhhh, problem solved.

Tomorrow, I will get some sleep. :)