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dancing_crow) wrote2011-06-04 02:21 pm
dancing_crow) wrote2011-06-04 02:21 pm
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There's been a lot of sleep fail at our house lately.
Al has been waking up and not sleeping again til he relocates to someplace quiet (Anne - it is a good thing you aren't visiting at the moment, there'd be contention for the couch!) Aerin has been unable to get to bed, and subsequently unable to get out of it, a classic teenager issue made worse by hanging out with graduated seniors.
Poor Alice says she's been waking up sad, which is really worrisome. It could be she's fed up with school and wants it to be done now (I totally sympathize), it could be some more specific stress in school, or it could be something else she can't quite put her finger on. She is incoherent in the mornings, so I can't ask then, and she does cheer up as the day goes on, so I kind of forget later. I'm writing this to remind myself to try to catch her when she's snuggly and relatively cheerful and it isn't time for bed and poke at the issue some. I worry about depression in Alice, along with worrying about her headaches. She does cry easily, and sometimes she can say why and sometimes she can't. When she can't, we've agreed to chalk it up to the wretched excess of hydrogen in the universe, as good an excuse as we've run across for random misery. (I'm indebted to the person whose blog I read that in that I can't remember.) While she is 13 now, she is still a long way off puberty, so I am unwilling to blame it on hormones. Beyond that, I'll watch and listen and hug, and see what happens.
Al has been waking up and not sleeping again til he relocates to someplace quiet (Anne - it is a good thing you aren't visiting at the moment, there'd be contention for the couch!) Aerin has been unable to get to bed, and subsequently unable to get out of it, a classic teenager issue made worse by hanging out with graduated seniors.
Poor Alice says she's been waking up sad, which is really worrisome. It could be she's fed up with school and wants it to be done now (I totally sympathize), it could be some more specific stress in school, or it could be something else she can't quite put her finger on. She is incoherent in the mornings, so I can't ask then, and she does cheer up as the day goes on, so I kind of forget later. I'm writing this to remind myself to try to catch her when she's snuggly and relatively cheerful and it isn't time for bed and poke at the issue some. I worry about depression in Alice, along with worrying about her headaches. She does cry easily, and sometimes she can say why and sometimes she can't. When she can't, we've agreed to chalk it up to the wretched excess of hydrogen in the universe, as good an excuse as we've run across for random misery. (I'm indebted to the person whose blog I read that in that I can't remember.) While she is 13 now, she is still a long way off puberty, so I am unwilling to blame it on hormones. Beyond that, I'll watch and listen and hug, and see what happens.
parenthood: not for the faint hearted