Ren Allen

A response from anon member:
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"Thanks for your responses. I thought it was interesting the three
different perspectives I received on the situation and plan to think
about each one carefully.

One note, I should mention that this roughhousing usually starts late
at night when we are getting into the family bed (which my dh actually
isn't in as he is on call 24 hours a day and it kept waking everybody
up in the middle of the night. On weekends, we do all family bed,
though). Our 3 yo. dd seems to wind up all over again, even if we
have had a very long busy day with lots of physical activity. We
haven't been able to pinpoint why she's winding up as it doesn't seem
to matter what the day has been like or what she has eaten. She just
gets a boost of energy at 11 pm at night. Unfortunately, my older dd
and I are usually exhausted and can't wait to go to sleep. So, taking
the kids to another place, such as a park, etc. usually isn't an
option (though, when this does happen in the daytime, that's a great
option-:).

Thanks again for the responses."

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Tina

"Our 3 yo. dd seems to wind up all over again, even if we
have had a very long busy day with lots of physical activity. We
haven't been able to pinpoint why she's winding up as it doesn't seem
to matter what the day has been like or what she has eaten. She just
gets a boost of energy at 11 pm at night."

Is it possible to start winding down before 11PM? I read somewhere
that 11PM is the time when we usually catch our second wind even if we
were really tired. I am a night owl by nature, so I am VERY familiar
with this feeling personally. I can be exhausted, and if I don't fall
asleep before 11PM I will surely be up until 1AM or so. It's just
like there's a switch that goes on, and I'm up and wide awake.

Just something to think about or maybe look into...

HTH - Tina