I have a 6 year old (turned 6 yesterday!), and while I am waiting on his full report, I was told by the tester he got a 155 fsiq on the WISC a few weeks ago. He is a great kid, though argumentative, but our issue is that he will NOT sleep in his bed all night. He comes in within an hour of us going to bed. We try walking him back, but he just comes in 20 minutes later, and often we don't even hear him, we just wake up and there he is, sprawled out. He is afraid during the day, too, and always wants someone in a room with him, including in the bathroom. We have another child who is almost 4 and would probably sleep in her own room, but her big brother doesn't, so we can't be firm with her. So most mornings there we all are, kids in the middle and my husband and I crammed on the edges.
This is definitely not new, but is also not improving. We have tried to reassure him we can keep him safe, bad guys can't get in, his room is great ... nighlocks don't exist ... He responds with things like, "well, we hunted bin laden for ten years, so that means we were both out there for 5 years, so you can only do so much ..." (I did not tell him about bin laden! What am I,nuts?). Does anyone have any suggestions? We cannot lock him out of our room if he is really so terrified.
I'm a new poster! Thanks for reading.
