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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does he make a fuss when he can't fall asleep?  My 4yo takes a long time to fall asleep - sometimes he is still awake 2+ hours after I put him to bed.  BUT he stays in bed and just sings songs and talks to his toys/himself so  I just let him do his thing.  Can you just do that for your own sanity instead of trying to "make" him fall asleep?[/quote]

OP here and we do this a reasonable amount. Generally he's pretty good about just looking at books and playing in his bed and we figure better for him to learn to fall asleep without us anyway.

But it's reached a critical point in the last few days where he's so overtired that he's really wound up at bedtime, and doing things like turning on his overhead light, playing music on this music box he has, jumping on the bed, coming out to see us, etc. And it's stressful because the longer it goes on the less sleep he'll get and it will just get worse. Last night I just kind of hit a breaking point and got visibly frustrated with him, which of course doesn't help matters either.

I can't seem to get my hands on any melatonin for tonight but I ordered some online. Tonight we'll try a bath and see if that works. He hasn't fallen asleep in the car in a long time (not even on long car trips, he'll stay awake straight through nap time even if the car is toasty warm and there's no talking. He's just an extremely alert kid.

I do appreciate the commiseration though. Thanks all. I'll get through this![/quote]

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