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Mama X
#1 Posted : Friday, August 26, 2011 7:47:09 AM(UTC)
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When my daughter was a baby she was not a good sleeper, but then when she got to preschool she started sleeping fine. But now that she is a teen I am noticing a change in her sleeping pattern. She really struggles to get to sleep at night, and she can get really angry with me if I try to get her to get off the phone and switch off the light. Then in the morning it's like trying to wake the dead.

Is this normal. And what can I do? I am worried it will impact on her schoolwork.
Greenrain
#2 Posted : Friday, August 26, 2011 2:20:43 PM(UTC)
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If she is in school then you have a say. Set a fair time and take the phone away from her until the morning, if she cant take responsibility and get enough sleep, thats where the parents job comes in. Its not a case of babying her, your job is to get her through school and assist where you can to remove distractions and influences. Shame on you
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#3 Posted : Friday, August 26, 2011 2:42:29 PM(UTC)
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Lock the phone.
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#4 Posted : Friday, August 26, 2011 2:48:40 PM(UTC)
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My daughter has the same problem. The activity that they engage in (in my case TV) let them go and sleep very late or early morning and they still need to sleep the same time as with a normal pattern. It is like with students that study late and after studying has to restore to normal pattern. The teens are teaching the body a certain displaced pattern (not normal sleeping hours) until they get rid of the acivity (Phone, TV, etc). Getting them off these bad patterns could pose a difficulty as in the case of the phone, it forms teir social life as well. My other daughter would be on the phone at 2 in the morning. she outgrew that. I, unfortunately, forces my daughter to go and sleep early, but one never knows what happen after you fall asleep.
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#5 Posted : Friday, August 26, 2011 3:19:51 PM(UTC)
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Simply restict her use of the phone (landline + cellphone) .. no phonecalls after 8pm.Brick wall
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#6 Posted : Friday, August 26, 2011 4:23:23 PM(UTC)
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take the phone away from your daughter during school nights. Problem solved.
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#7 Posted : Friday, August 26, 2011 4:24:18 PM(UTC)
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Changing one's sleeping pattern later and later is easy for some and then hard to bring it back. Sleep deprivation steps in and bring terrible mood swings and depression into play - not fun for anyone involved - sufferer and family.

Look into blue light therapy - It is supposed to bring your internal clock back in line. The idea is to avoid blue light early in the morning - wear orange lenses and get an extra dose of blue light in the early evening - wear blue lenses in front of bright white light box.
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#8 Posted : Saturday, August 27, 2011 5:44:27 AM(UTC)
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You have lost control. My daughter is 16 and when I say off the phone, to bed or lights out she listens. She knows it will not help to get angry, then I will just take one of these away. Kids get angry (we all did) and they get over it (we all did). Be a parent not a friend.
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#9 Posted : Saturday, August 27, 2011 7:19:37 AM(UTC)
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you the parent for God's sake, not their friend. NO PHONE.
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#10 Posted : Saturday, August 27, 2011 8:01:11 AM(UTC)
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If you are paying for the phone (directly or indirectly), take it until she agrees to change
her ways.Remember, she is living with you. You are not living with her.
Contrary to what many people think, children (and teens are still children) need to be
kept on the rail and need to have boundaries (it is their security although they will never
acknowledge it). But if the phone and the sleeping thing are the only problems, you are
a blessed parent. Good luck.
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