When my son (3.5) is very tired

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22 Mar 2010, 1:32 am

As he is now, as in tired past tired and winding up again, he does the opposite of what you would expect a tired child to do...he starts doing more of the things that we would like him to do normally. I.e. he starts interacting with us more, using (single) words a lot more than normal and in the right context, laughing and coming over to play with me (his Dad), responding to his name when called (he also gets pretty crazy but happy-crazy if that makes sense), playing silly games. It's brilliant.
Whereas when he's not tired he mainly sits there in his own quiet little world and won't interact that well. Certainly uses little or no words and is unresponsive to words.

Does anyone have any understanding of what that might be about?! It's not an isolated thing, and is just baffling.

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22 Mar 2010, 9:26 am

nostromo wrote:

I'm not a parent, but I have a (NT) brother and I can remember how he behaved when he was little. That sounds perfectly normal, and it's just what you'd described it-winding up...

It's normal for small children to get wound up at bedtime, in my experience. All small children get wound up before going to bed. Yes, it's baffling, but it seems to just be how life works

I'm not sure about using more words, but interacting more, being more happy-crazy seems to just be what kids do before bed.

To be honest, I still do this sometimes and I'm a teen. When I get overtired, I get more bubbly and outgoing.

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22 Mar 2010, 10:03 am

My son who is almost 5 tends to get wound up before bed time. Some days after he comes home from school, he seems to have no energy for hours after he gets home. Then when my husband comes home from work, it is like he has a second wind. When it is time to get dressed for bed, he starts running all over the house, and I have to keep trying to get him calmed down. My son tends to start saying more silly and nonsense things. That is what he likes to do!

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22 Mar 2010, 1:10 pm

nostromo wrote:

Does anyone have any understanding of what that might be about?! It's not an isolated thing, and is just baffling.

Sounds like what I probably seem like to my wife. When I'm not tired and I have the energy to focus, I prefer to read or work on my computer, during which time I'm pretty unresponsive. ("Yes dear. Uh, did you say something dear?") When I get tired and can't focus any more, though, I'm more willing to waste my time interacting with other people. I know interacting with people doesn't seem like a waste of time to some people, but it does to me.

Alternatively, he may just have figured out some strategies to delay bed time for as long as possible.

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22 Mar 2010, 7:23 pm

psychohist wrote:

nostromo wrote:

Does anyone have any understanding of what that might be about?! It's not an isolated thing, and is just baffling.

That could be it. He does have Autism, but perhaps when he's not tired he likes to be lost in his own thoughts. Certainly I did that as a kid and had lots of 'daydreams' to the detriment of my early schooling although I have no ASD.
I don't think he's delaying bed, he likes it just as much as anything and once in there continues playing in his room while babbling 90 to the dozen.

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