How many of you have kids?

[bigspizz]

Ugh I did that for 3 nights, taking him back to bed while mom slept, it just made it worse, he started getting up every 20 minutes expecting her to be at the door...now we lock the door so he has to knock, but it doesn't always wake me up.

I'm hoping school will help to wear all this energy out, I can't do a lot with him because I'm disabled - so I'm not as physically active as he is.

I hear ya bro...Might be harder while disabled, but 3 nights is the tip of the ice burg. Do not lock anything, that will not help anything ever at all. I think you hit the nail on the head...He has cabin fever....You need to start waking him up at 5:30 or 6:00 am.... Go out in the yard, and let him run circles if you have too. My kids love playing with the garden hose, it is fun to watch them. I have some issues that keep me from being as active as I'd like as well....

 

[meghanashley]

You know your kid best, if he's really scared because of the movie and it isn't that he suddenly cued in on the fact that pulling mom and dad's heart strings gets him attention in the night, then you could try taking him to something positive thats overwhelming like a huge zoo, a show like Walking with Dinosuars( which by the way if you haven't done you should when it comes your way it't kick ass, gonna see it with my son again in october), something that will stimulate him enough that it takes over the images he's obsessing with from the movie. My son went through about two weeks were he would have horrible nightmares waking up dripping sweat and crying (and he's a kid that usally enjoys scaring the crap out of himself)
I took him to the liberty science center then to a movie then the next day we went to the bronx zoo. He went to bed with those overloading thoughts rather then whatever he was having nightmares with. Kids are highly suggestable too. My mother never "motherd" when I was little I watched the excercist when I was maybe 4 or 5 scared the **** out of me went to bed with a bible even though I didn't even now what it was. That demon stuff still scares the crap out of me and I'm a HUGE horror film fan. Anyways my mom told me I couldn't have nightmares if I didn't sleep on my back.... so I still to this day can't go to sleep on my back. Just be careful with those thinngs. Good Luck every kid is different so basically you will always be fordging your way into uncharted waters.

 

[dirtyblacksocks]

Haha I found a solution, every time mom has to miss work because of him keeping her up at night we're taking a days pay out of his birthday money - that got him to stay in bed last night

 

[woofy]

My daughter did something similar for 2 years. she would everyday just wake up in the middle of the night but she actually had night terrors from what i know. If he's just getting up with o crying, complaining or anything, he just got use to moms rescue and comfort and i dont think its really the movi affecting him anymore. Therese just so much tim a child can have something on there minds. Why dont u try having a dramatic change in their routine. Like come up with a new bed time routine or take a day and just jam their minds with new things, new experiences new memories kinda of jam the other stuff out. Although i think its more of a habit know than anything to do with the movie. Kids get hooked on things , try finding a new thing they get obssesed with , they will soon forget about the movie and just think about their new discovery and obssesion. As for the mom , mom will be moms, we want are babies to be attached to us and want to just hold them in their hour of need. She just needs to realize the true reason why hes getting up, its for her not for the movie. She should realize its unhealthy for her son to be getting up everynight and she should fix it in that sense not just "oooh my poor snookums had a nitemare, poor widdle boy" ok ok im rambling.