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I just did a quick internet search so can't tell you anything about the products. Places to buy weighted blankets are listed here. Looks to be US based but imagine online places ship to Canada.

http://www.friendshipcircle.org/blog/2012/02/13/weighted-blankets-13-stores-to-choose-from/

http://www.myweightedblanket.com

Made to order and machine washable from Calgary
http://www.hippohug.ca/products/weighted-blankets/

OMG! DD has always had major sleep issues. Last year we did a sleep study because they suspected a significant sleep disorder. The night of the sleep study the heat wasn't working so they piled *a ton* of blankets on top of her. No talking, flailing, sitting up, sleep walking, laughing, shouting, etc. She woke up in *exactly* the same place she fell asleep - she didn't move an inch all night. Now I read about the magic of a weighted blanket???

I guess I need to discuss with our neurologist. This could be a good solution during cold weather months but not sure how comfortable it would be to sleep under something so heavy in warmer weather?

The only sleep problem my son has ever had was when he was 8 or 9 he started sleep sweating. He would wake up drenched in sweat, his pillow soaked half way through. It wasn't summer and he wasn't having nightmares. His doctor never had a good explanation and after a while it got better. But ever since then he has slept under just a very light fleece blanket. I can't imagine putting him under such a heavy blanket.

Call me a skeptic but I can't see how it would hurt to try. I hate anything very heavy on me while I sleep. But I'm sure different people have different preferences.

It's the 6 year old who won't sleep in?

We taught our early riser to read a clock, and then gave him activities he could do until a reasonable hour. He could get himself his breakfast and play legos. For a while we let him play on the computer, but it seemed to lead to even earlier rising, so we eliminated that.

At six it is more that his sleep patterns don't drive anyone else crazy. Decide how early you are prepared to get up then give him a clock and something to do in the morning.ds7 is allowed to come into my bed from 6 but not get up until 6.30 then I get breakfast while he washed s and dresses. The mail reason is ds5 takes forever to go to sleep at night and I don't want him woken too early. This assumes he is getting enough sleep.

Hmmm, happy? Happy when he is getting his own way! Hubby says he was the same way at that age :-)

Our DD now 10 was like this - learning to read and having a healthy stack of books to read upon awakening pretty well made the issue disappear.

Thanks for the links! I'm going to give it a try

Here's some remedies...

http://www.raisinglifelonglearners.com/gifted-children-need-less-sleep/

My DD10 did not take nap since she was 3 (unless we were driving) and we had to work with her pre-school so that she gets exemption not to take nap. Now, she bargained with us that if she is taking HS level classes, she should be able to stay as late as HSer. Well, she does not have HS level home work but we compromised.