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Hoagies' Blog Hop: Sweet Dreams
 Sweet
Dreams. Do your gifted kids struggle with getting to sleep?
Staying asleep? Does your infant or toddler spend more hours
awake than you do? Many parents find that gifted kids sleep far
less than their same-age counterparts. And yet, a few gifted
parents report their kids sleep more than average, and seem to
require more hours of sleep than the nighttime allows. Any of
these issues can make us feel alone, and often make us feel
exhausted! What's worked?
And what about Gifted Adults' sleep? Join us to read lots more
sleepy ideas!
Don't miss our previous Blog Hops,
including
Overexcitabilities (OEs),
and Asking for Help.
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Blog Hops for our past and future topics.
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 Finding Sweet Dreams in Elderhood by
Joy Navan, ongiftedelders
- Just like gifted children and adolescents, gifted adults and elders can
experience frequent difficulty both falling asleep or sustaining sleep
through the night. Gifted elders may experience other difficulties as well,
due to cognitive changes in elderhood or for other reasons.
In this blog, review some of my past findings as well as offer suggestions
to elders and their caretakers for enhancing the quality of sleep.
Additionally, I invite my readers to post effective techniques that they
find enhance their sleep habits as well...
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Dark Nights and Sleeplessness: A Shadow Side to Giftedness by
Gift-Ed Connections
- I have had a number of students who are gifted identify that a lack of
sleep has impacted their ability to cope emotionally to the stress of the
classroom, reporting having thoughts that would not let them sleep. My heart
aches for those whose imagination and emotional sensitivities render them
particularly vulnerable when the hurts of the day run away the dark side of
the imagination at night. Are gifted students more prone to this struggle?
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Sweet Dreams Are Not Made of These by
Adventures of Hahn
Academy
- People don’t always tell you that some babies, toddlers, or children are
not good sleepers. Oh, you will get that passing comment about
sleep-deprived newbie parents. However, even the prenatal classes make no
mention of possible sleep issues or prepare you for the reality of sleep
deprivation. Yet, there are tons of books, alleged sleep gurus, and general
advice on sleep problems and sleep training. But, when you are in the midst
of it, you feel all alone and completely sleep deprived. Honestly, very few
babies sleep through the night! Parents should not expect that so they can
be realistic on sleep expectations. That being said, we know our child was
an outlier on horrible sleep. Hopefully, your child is better or that your
future child will not be this difficult...
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 I love sleep. And caffeine. And wine. by Jen Merrill,
Laughing at Chaos
- Because, dear lord, I run on caffeine these days. Actually, I’ve run on
caffeine for the better part of 16+ years, which just so happens to coincide
with the blessed arrival of THE CHILD WHO NEVER FREAKING SLEPT. Four years
ago (to the day I’m writing this) I wrote about the perverse and delicious
glee I took in waking Andy. Sadly, I don’t get to indulge in the pleasure of
waking him these days, as he has a wicked loud and intense alarm clock to do
my dirty work. I do kinda miss it, but not enough to return to making his
monkey fling poo. At some point he and Jack need to learn to get their own
butts out of bed and moving, and that point was several months ago when
school started.
But me? I am not a morning person and I rail against the injustice of the
clock...
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 A’S,
B’S, and ZZZ’S: Sleep and the Middle- and High-School Brain by Nancy De
Bellis,
The Grayson School
- As a nation, we have a reputation for being DO-ers. We invent, we
discover, we create, and above all, we WORK. We have longer work days and
work weeks and less vacation than most other nations, and less generous sick
leave and family leave policies. And now that technology has opened up
24/7/365 connectedness and productivity, our culture increasingly
communicates that we should be working — doing something — nearly all the
time.
While this culture of work is generally an adult world, the model we have
created for ourselves as adults filters down to and informs the culture we
have created for our children, as well, both directly and indirectly. Our
schedules very directly impact theirs, of course; parents must juggle work
schedules with school schedules, often multiple school schedules, to manage
the logistics of everyday life. Indirectly, we communicate to our children
what is important in life — and that seems to most frequently focus on work
and achievement and productivity and accomplishments. While we undoubtedly
also reflect many other values to our children, there is one important part
of life that largely goes unnoticed and not discussed, particularly as our
children get older: sleep...
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Infant Sleep -
the experts never met your baby by
Heather in WonderSchooling
- The world of parenting books makes it look like it's all up to the
parent to help a child sleep, develop a schedule, and then the rest is
happily ever after.
They're lying.
Truth be told, the majority of babies who are given even moderate support
(healthy habits) from their caregivers develop pretty good sleep rhythms,
and then there are the outliers. The colicky babies. The reflux queens. The
never sleepers. The endless nursers. The must-be-held-ers.
They're hard...
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What
is this "sleep" thing of which you speak? by Heather, The Fringy
Bit
- You know those parents who gently lift their sleeping child from the
car, drape their ragdoll deep-sleeping child over their arms and quietly
transfer them, still asleep, into warm and cozy beds? Yeah, I kinda hate
them a little. OK. Maybe that’s too strong. I am just extremely jealous.
Never, ever has that been my experience in 12 years and 3 children of
parenting...
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Updated
December 01, 2020
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