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[quote=Anonymous]Here's the story. We have never had great sleep from our now 4 year old son but it has turned shockingly bad this summer. He was getting between 10-11 hours at night before we went on a two week long vacation. We were in a new place that was very crowded. Everyone shared a room and each night of the vacation sleep became more of an issue. Going to bed later and waking up earlier. We tried o stick to the home routine but he battled us and the circumstances were not helping.  On our last night he screamed and threw the most violent temper tantrum we have ever experienced. Biting, scratching, kicking, throwing. We gave up and put him in the car and  he fell asleep Immediately.

We figured it would be better again at home in his own room. But it has been a true nightmare. He is still extremely tired but we are at a loss to get him well rested. We are doing our old bedtime routine and everything seems fine until we leave the room at 7:30. Then begin the departures. He comes running out of his room hysterically laughing. We try and do the no emotion silent return to his room. But he is very violent. Kicking often he hurts himself and us. He has grabbed our glasses off our faces, scratched our faces, kicked, hit. He hits hard and this hurts. He is a high energy child but this defiant violence is like nothing we have ever seen before. We are overcome with sadness and don't know what to do. It is 10pm right now and after over two hours of this, we are sticking him in the car for a ride to have him fall asleep.

How do we get back to our old pre-vacation life? I miss my sweet boy who is a holy terror not just at night but all day long now that he is so overtired. Desperate for advice!!!![/quote]

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