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Let's Talk Kids: "Seeking Sleep"
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While their exhausted parents could fall asleep standing on their heads, frustrated four-year-olds and sobbing seven-year-olds fight bedtime to the death. What is it that kids have against sleeping? Most parents have faced this night-time frustration at least once, and the reasons it happens are as complicated as the children they love. First, young children are determined to establish autonomy and don’t like for adults to make decisions for them about anything. Sometimes, kids are worried about something bad happening in the night, like a break-in or a house fire. Lots of kids worry about having nightmares. And some kids’ natural temperaments are so active that they can’t bear the thought of slowing down to sleep and being confined to bed for a whole night. I’ve been asking the real “experts” about this phenomenon—parents who have lived through it. Here are some ideas that might work if your child is resisting sleep. One parent found that allowing her four-year-old to decide about the
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