Levi is sound asleep in the other room. Yea!! The glow stick experiment worked, and worked well! Giving him a glow stick before going to bed has reduced the fears and isn't bright enough to keep him awake. Hopefully he will be able to sleep without help before having to buy a glow stick a night breaks me financially. I am not sure if just finding the right lighting was enough to fix whatever it is that is disturbing him, but at least it is the first step.
Levi has started chess. At our After School Care we have an enrichment program. There is Chess on Mondays and a PE Teacher that teaches them games and sports on Thursday. I love that he gets those classes for free and he loves them. All you have to do is sign him up. Now he wants to play chess all the time. I am thinking I will have to go and buy a cheap chess set and play with him on the weekend. I can see how chess is a game he'd love; lots of structure, lots of rules! He is a follow the rules sort of boy.
OK just now, Levi came out and 'can't sleep'. I guess the glow sticks weren't as good as I thought. Perhaps yesterday had more to do with fatigue than solving the problems. Ah parenting, what do you do with them? I have no idea at times. My mother would just scream at him and smack him and he would cry (as I did) and either cry himself to sleep (which I pretended to do so I wasn't yelled at again) or lie awake and wonder what he had done to make me so mad at him (which I also did). So I don't yell at him because I don't want any of those things to happen. So what option do I have? I am not going to smack him. Really I am going to let him lie there and he will eventually sleep. Hopefully he will grow out of this soon. I am really wanting him to sleep better.
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