can some1 pleaaaaase help me with the 'bedtime' problem?? every night is a battle of wills to get tom to sleep.....however since being back at school and the whole christmas stuff starting he is getting progressively worse. tom has a huge reptetoire of excuses for shouting down stairs to me or coming downstairs to delay goin to sleep. last night i finally decided enough was enough and that i was going to ignore all efforts by him. well, i ended up in tears, tom nearly ended up vomiting n loosing his voice, i had to phone my neighbours to explain wat the heck all the racket was and dear hubby (who is also AS) just sat here n laffed at all of toms attempts to talk to me.
my problem really is knowing whether to continue with the ignoring ALL attempts or should I somehow intervene when he starts self harming (banging head on wall, squishing fingers between doors etc)?
any advice on how to proceed with joyous task would be really fantastic as the thought of another 2 or 3 hours of this for the next couple of weeks is really very depressing!! best wishes, Janey
