Sleepwalking Kids???

[Crazy8]

OMG, this is the first time in 10 years I've seen this.....

dcb (3.5) is on his mat sleeping. even if he wakes up he never gets off the mat till I come in and turn the lights on. I just hear him walking in the playroom and thinking WTH? maybe he has to go to the bathroom (usually he'd just call out to me for that though)... I go in there and he's curled up on the chair in the reading area - SLEEPING. He got off his mat and walked across the room to lay in the chair - not sure if he was ever awake!! I have NEVER had a kid do this before. I took him and put him back on his mat and he has no clue, still sound asleep!

I am always within earshot of the kids but just thought this was the strangest thing! Anyone have a sleepwalker???

[MyAngels]

My son was a sleepwalker. He started around 4 years old. We just steered him back to bed when it happened. By the time he was a teenager he would come out of his room and have conversations with us as if he were awake. The only way we knew he was sleepwalking was because whatever he said never made any sense at all .

His wife tells me he doesn't sleep walk much anymore, but he does wake her up in the night to have strange conversations, poor girl.

[Kaddidle Care]

I'd ask his parents if he's on any new allergy meds. Do ask them if he sleepwalks. Maybe he semi woke up and thought he'd look at a book and dozed off again.

That said, my brother was found twice after sleep walking. Once climbing under and over the rungs under the dining room table. Another time in the hall closet. Both times he was looking for the bathroom. Thankfully they found him before he let it fly.

[Crazy8]

I'd ask his parents if he's on any new allergy meds. Do ask them if he sleepwalks. Maybe he semi woke up and thought he'd look at a book and dozed off again.

That said, my brother was found twice after sleep walking. Once climbing under and over the rungs under the dining room table. Another time in the hall closet. Both times he was looking for the bathroom. Thankfully they found him before he let it fly.

I plan to ask them this afternoon - they've never mentioned it before and I've had him his whole life!!

[mismatchedsocks]

No daycare kids that I know of, yet! I however sleep walk/talk. I guess its pretty funny, but I have no recollection!

[familyschoolcare]

My daughter used to sleep walk started when she was placed in a bed instead of a crib, I just pointed her back to the direction of her bed and she climbed in. She completely stopped by the time she was 10. I thought she had stopped at the age of 4 but then one day I got up in the middle of the night to get a glass of water and she was walking in the hallway, put a dead bolt towards the top where she could not reach of the front door the next day. Earlier that week it was in the news that a child slept walked three blocks down the street from their house CPS got involved.

[Michael]

https://www.daycare.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30530

[Zoe]

LOL! :::::::: This post reminds me of my mother. She sleep talks and growing up it was hilarious! Whenever I had a bad dream and wanted comfort I'd try to wake her up. She would usually respond with nonsense like "a tassel is a tassel. I've got it under control." Pair that with snoring and you've got me feeling a lot better about my dream! ::::::

Anyway.....I'm curious to see what dcm says about whether the boy does this at home as well. For now, just keep an eye on him for a while so that he doesn't wander away or to anyplace dangerous.

[Kaddidle Care]

My oldest used to sleep laugh. It was the weirdest thing. It would happen if we were out late and if he fell asleep in the car. We could walk him in and he'd flop on the couch and go into histerics laughing. Eyes wide open but he wasn't there and laughing until tears came out of his eyes.

It was funny, weird, scary. You couldn't wake him. I asked the Pediatrician about it once and she looked at me like I was from another planet. :confused:

Mostly happened when he was overtired.

Now he's in College and last year one of his roommates came in a tad drunk and went into his room when he was sleeping and had a full conversation with him. The other roommates were dumbfounded as he had no recollection of it.

Now this is my ADHD (unmedicated) kid. He's always walked to the beat of a different drummer.

So... sorry, I've gotten off track. What did his Mama say?

[sharlan]

My youngest dd would sleep walk. We put a flip lock on the front door to keep her from walking out at night. She never did it during the day, though.

My eldest daughter and granddaughter both giggle and laugh in their sleep.

[countrymom]

my ydd is a sleep walker, last year we can hear something downstairs (our bedroom is at the staircase and I'm a light sleeper so I have no idea why we never heard her) but it was her crying that woke us up and she was trying to open our door, but it has a deadbolt on it and she couldn't open it. She had no idea and we brought her back to bed, the next day we put an alarm on the door.
We found that if her day was over stimulated then she would walk in her sleep or if she has to go pee, she goes to the bathroom (the kids have their own) and then walk to my room which has 2 steps and crawl into bed with us, she's 7 and she still does this. Her new thing is around 2 or 3 am she now wants to have a conversation with me, she just stands there on my side of the bed and starts talking, she's freaky.
My dh and mdd are sleep talkers, my mdd is really loud.

[Meeko]

My father has given us some scares and some laughs over the years.

One night he threw himself on top of my mother. For a second she thought he was getting fresh with her......but turns out he was "saving her" because he thought the ceiling was collapsing.......

Then one night he freaked me out by standing at the bottom of my bed. Then suddenly he leaned down and flipped the mattress up, throwing me out of bed. Turns out he was "fixing the car" and had "thrown up the hood".......

Sometimes, he would sleep VERY heavily and yet would know he needed to go to the bathroom. The stairs were right before the bathroom door. I cannot count the numerous times my father has rolled down the stairs.....never gets hurt tho....He's almost 80 years old now and thankfully does not sleep so deeply and the walking adventures in his sleep have stopped!

[laundrymom]

Omg! Ok, you need to come put these nappers back to sleep because I just died laughing at the thought of him flipping your bed!!!!

My father has given us some scares and some laughs over the years.

One night he threw himself on top of my mother. For a second she thought he was getting fresh with her......but turns out he was "saving her" because he thought the ceiling was collapsing.......

Then one night he freaked me out by standing at the bottom of my bed. Then suddenly he leaned down and flipped the mattress up, throwing me out of bed. Turns out he was "fixing the car" and had "thrown up the hood".......

Sometimes, he would sleep VERY heavily and yet would know he needed to go to the bathroom. The stairs were right before the bathroom door. I cannot count the numerous times my father has rolled down the stairs.....never gets hurt tho....He's almost 80 years old now and thankfully does not sleep so deeply and the walking adventures in his sleep have stopped!

[Meeko]

Omg! Ok, you need to come put these nappers back to sleep because I just died laughing at the thought of him flipping your bed!!!!

It's funny now I'm 50! I was about 15 at the time and it was a "what the he!!" moment back then!!!!