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Our 4 yo is a VERY active sleeper. Every morning she comes into our room and says, "Do you want to hear my dream?" My favorite one she's told me so far involved 3 dinosaurs and a mermaid being her friends.
A few weeks ago in the middle of the night, 4 yo walked into our room and turned on the light. But she wouldn't talk to us and looked really confused. My husband scooped her up and put her back in her bed. And turned off our light. :)
We've heard both 2 yo and 4 yo talk in their sleep. Sometimes it's mumbling, sometimes it's just one word said out loud. I was infamous for sleep-talking when I was growing up.
Since 4 yo was about 2 years old, she's had night terrors frequently. It's not cool, let me tell you. We hear her whimpering and go in to find her shivering and mumbling. Her speech is completely incoherent, and she's not really awake. Sometimes she's pointing at something. We haven't found any one thing to help ease these. My husband is really good with 4 yo in these situations; he picks her up, talks to her, and finds something to distract her from whatever's going on.
What's really frightening about these night terrors is one time, a couple days after a night terror episode, 4 yo told us about how we "make the scary guy go back to his home." I have no doubt these are tied into spiritual attacks. It makes me so mad! AND...it makes me pray hard for these kids to be protected.
Luckily not much goes on with our kids after 8:00! :) Once in a while I'll hear our son talking in his sleep but that's about it, thankfully!
Karen, I have some friends who play church hymns all through the night in their children's rooms. I have no doubt kiddos are attacked spiritually in the middle of the night. Music using Jesus' name, might be helpful.
As for us, bedtime is quite hilarious. Our oldest, Merek, is easy. Tell him it's bedtime, put on pajammys, read 3 books, and it's lights out. Our 2nd is not the same. She knows it's time for bed, so milks us for all it's worth. We have finally decided we just can't give into her expectations anymore. She needs her sleep. So we put her to bed, she'll scream and yell (but she can't get out because we have a toddler nob on the inside of her door). 20 minutes later, we'll go in and soothe her. 20 minutes later we'll go in again. Generally, it only takes one time of going in and she is so exhausted from fighting sleep, that she finally konks out. She's tricky! :-)
We deal with night terrors once in awhile-at least that's what we think it is. Mac will start sobbing uncontrollably but the weird thing is she's not awake and it is really hard to wake her up. She'll just cry and cry and cry(it's a different kind of cry too) and it is heart-wrenching b/c there isn't much we can do. We turn on the light and I rock her and talk to her at a normal voice level. Eventually she calms down and usually then she wakes up. Most times I have to hold her for quite awhile until she almost asleep again b/c if I put her back in her crib too soon, she starts to cry. Thankfully it doesn't happen too often and it has been getting less. Other than that, she sleeps great! :)
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