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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, wait, you want him to sleep past six! Are you insane?[/quote]

Why is that insane? It's recommended that kids that age get 10-13 hours of sleep a day. He no longer naps so sleeping 8-6 overnight is on the low end of that, but he has regularly been waking up much earlier (as well as overnight with no concept of what time it was). Conventional sleep wisdom suggested the overnight and early morning wakeups were due to high cortisol from overtiredness, so we tried an early bedtime around 7, which didn't help so we're back to 8 now. Again, this seems to be on the late end for a 3 year old who doesn't nap, but obviously all kids are different.

For everyone's sake it would be great to get back to consolidated sleep overnight but of course we can't force him to sleep, really ever... if he doesn't need more sleep or rest, our goals are to help him understand what time of day it is, entertain himself in his room until a reasonable hour, and not wake up the whole family.[/quote]

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