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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The schedule is ridiculous. Right out the gate you're setting yourself up for failure. She's tired and needs more sleep and you're forcing her out to bed to have a 50 minute breakfast she's not interested in. Whittle all of this down to 45 mins to an hour. Do her hair for her (she's 6 not 16).

Your kid needs medication. This is no way for any of you to live. [/quote]

She gets upward of 10 hours a day. [/quote]

so you’re putting her to bed at 9:30?  That’s later than my 11 yo goes to bed and she gets up at the same time as your kid.  I would move her bedtime up by an hour.[/quote]

Bedtime is 8:30 but she can take until 9:00 or 9:30 to be asleep. She often picks her skin or just tosses and turns. [/quote]

This is why people use melatonin.  Sleep is vital - for everyone and even more so for kid with atttentional issues and possibly other issues.

(Fwiw, I have a kid with ASD and ADHD-I and a kid with ASD/PDA and ADHD-H and it's hard.  But you still have to parent.)[/quote]

Yes, I know the importance of sleep. We have tried melatonin but it makes her a monster the next day. She’s extremely sensitive to any medications and even 1/4 of the dose makes her loopy and emotional the next day. I will lay with her, have taught her guided relaxation, rub her back, scratch her head, and make her do deep breathing every night to help her fall asleep. Sometimes it happens quickly but often it doesn’t.

Why would you suggest that “I still have to parent,” as though I am not? What about my posts ever suggested that I am not working my tail off to parent? I never get a break, and am constantly trying new and different parenting techniques, seeing specialists and our doctor, etc. I do nothing but parent. Nothing. [/quote]

Me too, OP. I’m also told it’s my parenting. Then the well-meaning person suggests something that already crashed and burned. Under the direction of a parenting coach. [/quote]

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