'Beyond the typically prescribed bedtime baths, off-buttons on TVs, rigid routines (hard to keep when you have ADHD, too), and ban on Coke at dinner, we had to work hard to find remedies that worked.'
We used to dread bedtimes. Once the novelty of being born wore off, once he rested up from that exhausting ordeal, Enzo just could never see the point in sleeping. He just didn’t want to miss a thing. If I wasn’t able to nurse him down, his dad, “Dave,” would carry him around the house and the yard showing him how the birds were asleep, the animals were asleep, all his friends were asleep, his toys were asleep, and daddy was, well, dead on his feet.
We always thought we were bad parents. His little friends would just put their heads down and close their eyes when they were sleepy. It was probably because of the pacifier that he never learned to self-soothe. It was probably the co-sleeping. And then, after two or three years of that, when he took up combat sleeping, it was probably because we didn’t have the guts to let him cry it out past 2 or 3 AM.See? He’s neurologically different. He’s got thoughts in his brain. All night long.
Beyond the typically prescribed bedtime baths, off-buttons on TVs, rigid routines , and ban on Coke at dinner, we had to work hard to find remedies that worked. When I was a baby, the only thing that would put me to sleep was a drive around the block in the Volkswagen Bug. That never worked for little Enzo — cars, as you know by now, are way too interesting to him.Knowing that I was the adult helped me “dominate” my toddler into taking a nap when he needed it.
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