Bedtime Battles

I have no clue what to do to make these boys go to bed anymore. It seems like when I say it is time for bed they get their second wind.  No matter what I do they want to play and wrestle and hurt each other instead of laying down and going to sleep.  They take benadryl to help them sleep but that doesn't help them go to sleep.  We have tried reading for a while before bed to calm them down. We have tried them standing on time out for a while before bed.  I have no idea what else to do.  I think we are gonna start cutting out t.v. about 6 and then separate them and let them read quietly for an hour and then send them to bed one at a time.  Maybe that will work. I will try anything once.

figured out

Well I have figured out how to get my youngest out of bed and on the run.  He loves to race the clock, so we use a stopwatch and time him getting dressed, eating breakfast, and getting his winter gear on to leave for school. Now I have to go and get the next one up.  I believe we are gonna have to go back to a 7pm bed time so that they get enough sleep and it isn't so hard for them to get up and get moving in the morning, and so we can get more sleep. My body has gotten used to going to bed by 9, but the last couple of weeks with everyone being sick we have kind of gotten off course and really need to get back on course.

confused momma

What am I to do now?  I am at a lost as to what to do with my boys.  I love them with all my heart. I do everything I can to make sure they have the life I never had.  I am at the end of my knowledge rope.  Therapists are not helping in any way with my baby of the bunch.  I am beginning to think he may have something seriously wrong with him mentally, but I have no idea where to go to begin the process of finding out exactly what the problem is and how to go about fixing it. I know God will help me through this it is just going to take time.  This blog is strictly for me to bounce ideas off of and to vent a little as a frustrated parent.  My children are now, have always been, and always will be my life.  I have no intentions on giving up on any of them. I am going to see this through to the end so that when he is old enough he can stand on his own two feet in this dog eat dog world. My boys have the worst case of sibling rivalry in the world I swear, but that part of life I have fixed for the most part. Now they are all just having their petty fights over silly things like the cat, or video games, or televisions.