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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op back here. We’ve had so much improvement. Still going with 1/2 melatonin. One small change that I hadn’t done before is give it to them with dinner so it has time to enter the bloodstream.

We dropped family time. Dh is fine to miss out on what I get all day. He has weekends and occasional days off, and at least now he isn’t spending the end of our family time feeling super frustrated with them.

W/o the melatonin, I don’t think we could have put them to bed earlier. I can just imagine they would all stay up in their rooms playing. I know because several times we tried early times, we found they stayed up LATER and were constantly asking for things (which becomes a game for them).

Last night, all asleep by 9, including the littlest asleep by 8:30.

What is also helping is the early sunsets.... right now it’s 6:30 and I see the light dimming quickly. Before, it felt like high noon all the way until 8pm.[/quote]

FYI dropping family time means going straight from dinner to bed. Or if not directly, rather quickly.
Before: doing dinner then direct to bedtime was depressing because of how long it took for them to sleep. We had NO meaningful evening. 10:30 and the day is done. Therefore, we spent time with the kids because at least then dh and I could accomplish something for ourselves
Now: going directly to bedtime is not depressing because we know we’ll have more evening later. The melatonin is providing that slim margin. Thanks again all. [/quote]

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