Along these lines, I've recently started giving Stephen 1/4 of a 50 mg tablet of B6 every day, crushed up in his morning juice. We've been doing it for a week and a half, maybe, and it seems to help. B6 helps the body process tryptophan/serotonin/melatonin.
I decided to try it when I began taking it again and found it helped me stay asleep. Stephen, like me, is a crappy sleeper. I figured maybe his body would work similarly to mine. His preschool teacher recently told us that he said he was always tired, and that he goes to bed at 8 every night, but can't sleep: he just lies there and thinks. Of course, that's complicated by the giving up naps year-long process.
I might try melatonin at some point, but it seems a bit riskier than B6 to me. I'd try either with no qualms on an adult, but I'm real cautious with my kid's developing mind. OTOH, I sometimes think that if we could break the cycle early, he'd be in better shape for the rest of his life.
As for the meditation tricks, I never really got meditation until I read the beginning of _Full Catastrophe Living_, which pretty much stripped mediation of everything but focusing on the sensation of your breathing in your belly.
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I decided to try it when I began taking it again and found it helped me stay asleep. Stephen, like me, is a crappy sleeper. I figured maybe his body would work similarly to mine. His preschool teacher recently told us that he said he was always tired, and that he goes to bed at 8 every night, but can't sleep: he just lies there and thinks. Of course, that's complicated by the giving up naps year-long process.
I might try melatonin at some point, but it seems a bit riskier than B6 to me. I'd try either with no qualms on an adult, but I'm real cautious with my kid's developing mind. OTOH, I sometimes think that if we could break the cycle early, he'd be in better shape for the rest of his life.
As for the meditation tricks, I never really got meditation until I read the beginning of _Full Catastrophe Living_, which pretty much stripped mediation of everything but focusing on the sensation of your breathing in your belly.