Thoughts on co-sleeping ?
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Holy shit I feel like I had a similar kind of issue and I've never heard anyone talk about it before. Childhood tinnitus and sleeping issues. Literally never had anyone else write anything remotely similar to my experience.
I slept on the floor of my sibling's room instead of my parents. I have always suspected that I had a form of tinnitus even as a young child. I would get paranoid that the sounds of the tinnitus were some other entity in the room and get scared. You know how like you can sometimes "hear" when someone behind you even though they don't make a sort of obvious sound? That's how mine has always been for me. For me, it wasn't that I needed noise to drown it out. It was that having someone else in the room made me feel safe enough to sleep.
My tinnitus if that's what it really is has always constantly and incessantly warbled in intensity and directionality, which propogates the feeling of something suddenly being there. It's not the classical "eee" noise that people think of when they think tinnitus.
I remember as a child thinking when people would talk about the "sounds of silence" that they just meant this noise lol.
I've never been diagnosed with tinnitus, but I've been living with it for decades. I mostly have a low-level, staticky whine, but sometimes I'll have attacks that are high-pitched, loud, and painful. I will also rarely have bouts where my hearing is muffled and definitely feels like someone is behind you blocking ambient sounds. The in front of you part is probably blocked out by our eyes showing nothing there.
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I’m a 27 year old single mother and I have a 12 year old son. Recently he’s been knocking on my door in the middle of the night because he can’t sleep and he asks to sleep with me. I’ve been letting him since neither of us really have a problem with it and it’s kind of nice not having to sleep alone every night. However, I’ve heard and seen some things online that seem controversial about co-sleeping with a child past a certain age. I definitely don’t want to negatively affect his development, so I guess what are your thoughts?
seems unusual, at 13 i already hated sleeping with a family member in different beds, because he was constantly hovering over as a "helicopter parent" who he thought took it upon himself.
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I’m a 27 year old single mother and I have a 12 year old son. Recently he’s been knocking on my door in the middle of the night because he can’t sleep and he asks to sleep with me. I’ve been letting him since neither of us really have a problem with it and it’s kind of nice not having to sleep alone every night. However, I’ve heard and seen some things online that seem controversial about co-sleeping with a child past a certain age. I definitely don’t want to negatively affect his development, so I guess what are your thoughts?
How cares what people say, just do what feels right.
Don’t underestimate the need for physical touch. Most people are starved of physical touch, rather than having too much of it, especially males.
Male teenagers will stop sleeping with parents once they start masturbating, so your problem is going to be short-lived.
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How cares what people say, just do what feels right.
Don’t underestimate the need for physical touch. Most people are starved of physical touch, rather than having too much of it, especially males.
Male teenagers will stop sleeping with parents once they start masturbating, so your problem is going to be short-lived.
Male teenagers will stop sleeping with parents once they start masturbating, so your problem is going to be short-lived.
...or you're going to have a completely different more terrifying problem
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Male teenagers will stop sleeping with parents once they start masturbating, so your problem is going to be short-lived.
...or you're going to have a completely different more terrifying problem
Lol. This is not porn
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Lol. This is not porn
Yeah, she said son, not stepson
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Lol. This is not porn
Wanted to point out Oedipus and Electra complexes. Began reading. Should not be reading.
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Yeah, she said son, not stepson
Lol, yes. Point to be noted
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Lol. This is not porn
It's got a name for a reason, Oedipus complex
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I’m a 27 year old single mother and I have a 12 year old son. Recently he’s been knocking on my door in the middle of the night because he can’t sleep and he asks to sleep with me. I’ve been letting him since neither of us really have a problem with it and it’s kind of nice not having to sleep alone every night. However, I’ve heard and seen some things online that seem controversial about co-sleeping with a child past a certain age. I definitely don’t want to negatively affect his development, so I guess what are your thoughts?
My parent spidey senses are tingling. Besides the ADHD, is there anything else happening in his life? Major life change (changing school; new friends, etc)? He may not feel comfortable vocalizing yet if there is in fact something affecting him
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I’m a 27 year old single mother and I have a 12 year old son. Recently he’s been knocking on my door in the middle of the night because he can’t sleep and he asks to sleep with me. I’ve been letting him since neither of us really have a problem with it and it’s kind of nice not having to sleep alone every night. However, I’ve heard and seen some things online that seem controversial about co-sleeping with a child past a certain age. I definitely don’t want to negatively affect his development, so I guess what are your thoughts?
At 12 I kind of doubt any mind-tricks are required. If the kid wants to cuddle why not?
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My parent spidey senses are tingling. Besides the ADHD, is there anything else happening in his life? Major life change (changing school; new friends, etc)? He may not feel comfortable vocalizing yet if there is in fact something affecting him
Now that you say this, I had a talk recently with him about me wanting to date again and the possibility of a stepdad
