Weekend Wisdom: Help! No One Is Sleeping In Our House!
Question: We have two children adopted through the foster care system as infants – an almost 10-year-old (AudHD) and a 4.5-year-old (neurotypical). They both come into our room every night in the middle of the night, and it is really disturbing. It seems like we’ve tried everything to get them to stop. Recently, we told them we were going to start locking our door, but then they just come and knock and knock until one of us gets up. If we try to put them back in their own beds, they make us lie down with them until they fall asleep – then I can’t get back to sleep after that. Not sure how to handle this situation.
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Resources:
- Sleep Issues with Adopted, Foster, or Relative Children
- Why Won’t My Child Sleep?! (And What Can I Do?)
- Help! My Newly Placed Child is Regressing on Sleep
Music Credit: Michael Ashworth; Podcast Producer: megownsoundworks.com; Photo by Ron Lach : https://www.pexels.com/photo/mother-checking-in-on-her-sleeping-daughter-9874616/