Melatonin doesn't work on kids. Everyone knows you put gin in their juice. I think there's a song about it.

Flintstones chewable morphine would have done the trick, too.

What a daycare might look like.

My daughter has night terrors and her pediatrician recommended melatonin to help her sleep.

I was unaware that classic rock radio station websites had news sections. Live and learn.

garulee: "That other woman has already been convicted and is serving her six-month sentence."

My, that's some fine journalism there.

LOL wow.

I clicked the link expecting to see the usual nightmarish mistreatment of children. Melotonin? BFD. An appropriate punishment would be six months of taking care of snotty brats that won't sleep.

notatrollorami: An appropriate punishment would be six months of taking care of snotty brats that won't sleep.

I hope you're not on my jury, you monster. How can you sleep at night?

LetsGoBowling: What a daycare might used to look like.


/After the lawsuit anyway

In the old days the nurses would put the babys p____ in thei mouth and it would send them to sleep.

proser: notatrollorami: An appropriate punishment would be six months of taking care of snotty brats that won't sleep.

I hope you're not on my jury, you monster. How can you sleep at night?

I usually take Melatonin

FMLYHM: proser: notatrollorami: An appropriate punishment would be six months of taking care of snotty brats that won't sleep.

I hope you're not on my jury, you monster. How can you sleep at night?

I usually take Melatonin

Zing!

/I wondered who'd snag that opportunity

Oh please. When I was a kid, my grandmother gave me phenobarb all the time, and I turned fine out.

/actually not kidding

THIS IS WHY THEY KEEP TAKING AWAY NAPTIME!

/I hope you all saw that link.

How exactly did they find out?

Aren't dietary supplements usually stimulants?

Approves

/Wakin' up during a nap...you better believe that's a paddlin'

Hey, waitafugginminute, it's a "dietary supplement" and that makes it perfectly harmless!

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

I clearly remember one time in the kindergarten when my eyes got duct-tape on them because I couldn't sleep. Not that it helped.

notatrollorami: I clicked the link expecting to see the usual nightmarish mistreatment of children. Melotonin? BFD. An appropriate punishment would be six months of taking care of snotty brats that won't sleep.

You know melatonin resets the body's clock, makes you want to sleep a full 8 hours, and makes you want to go to sleep at the same time the next day, right? As much as I hate kids, I don't see how drugging kids without parental consent can be construed as ethical.

It's judges like this that caused us to get a ban on GHB!

This is what happens when day care workers aren't allowed to beat the children to sleep.

proser: notatrollorami: An appropriate punishment would be six months of taking care of snotty brats that won't sleep.

I hope you're not on my jury, you monster. How can you sleep at night?

Since you asked, I begin running a warm bath with the strawberry bubblebath I claim to buy for my children (who are already asleep, BTW). Then I take two melatonin and a sleeping pill. Then I read in the bubblebath for about half an hour. Then I dry off, take three hits from the pipe hidden in my bathroom, then brush and floss. Then I hit the bed in the often vain hope that the Olympic sprinter hamster on my brain wheel will remain wobbly and weak long enough for consciousness to dissipate.

And you?

vtbutters: keypusher: Melatonin doesn't work on kids. Everyone knows you put gin in their juice. I think there's a song about it.

Really? It doesn't?

No. It really does. Not as well as gin, but it really does work. School just started and you better believe I'll be chopping up some melatonin pills later tonight.

It's really safe, too.

But if a woman did that to my kids I'd punch her right in the ovaries.

I have such wonderful memories of Mother bringing me my brown water before bedtime. I was asleep in minutes.

/found out recently it was 1/2 bourbon.

notatrollorami: proser: notatrollorami: An appropriate punishment would be six months of taking care of snotty brats that won't sleep.

I hope you're not on my jury, you monster. How can you sleep at night?

Since you asked, I begin running a warm bath with the strawberry bubblebath I claim to buy for my children (who are already asleep, BTW). Then I take two melatonin and a sleeping pill. Then I read in the bubblebath for about half an hour. Then I dry off, take three hits from the pipe hidden in my bathroom, then brush and floss. Then I hit the bed in the often vain hope that the Olympic sprinter hamster on my brain wheel will remain wobbly and weak long enough for consciousness to dissipate.

And you?

You too?!?

Stanfan114: I have such wonderful memories of Mother bringing me my brown water before bedtime. I was asleep in minutes.

/found out recently it was 1/2 bourbon.

My dad gave me sherry or port, but he was a wine salesman so thats what he had around.

It's melatonin. That stuff is mild and gives me technicolor dreams. It isn't like the guy was a creepster and slipped the kids Xanax to make them sleep then did weird things to them. You can wake up when you are on melatonin, it's just harder.

The rule should probably be we only drug our own kids.

Rapmaster2000: Oh please. When I was a kid, my grandmother gave me phenobarb all the time, and I turned fine out.

/actually not kidding

Mine too. OK, actually it was my mom who gave it to me. It was a prescription.
/Damn Febrile Convulsions
//Seriously...my Grandma was epileptic, so they took no chances.

Ok people, whole story time. All y'all can stop reading now unless you are really interested.

One of my earliest memories is of an EEG at 3 years old. They found out I had no seizure focus, but perhaps I am getting ahead of myself. When I was nine months old I had serious febrile convulsions (these are fairly routine when an infant's fever spikes, usually they last up to a minute or so). Mine lasted an hour or thereabouts, until the doctors got some phenobarb into me. I was on that stuff for about a year and a half, before they realized it wasn't going to happen again. Then I went for the EEG and they realized I was not epileptic. (I thank God I am not, not because it is unmanageable, but rather because it is a tremendous pain in the neck).

Actually the one I am amazed was not traumatized by the entire event is my mom. She's a good one.

keypusher: Melatonin doesn't work on kids. Everyone knows you put gin in their juice. I think there's a song about it.

That. Is. Horrible.

As a parent, I am shocked and offended and personally butt-hurt that you even mentioned that song! It explicitly mentions "rollin' down the street smokin' Indo," yet nowhere in the song does it encourage or even illustrate the use of a car seat! How can we keep our children safe when these thug life gangsta rappers are filling their heads with this nonsense about riding around in cars without car seats?!

That's what benedryl is for.
Actually, benedryl now says on it "do not give to children to make them sleep" or somesuch. Our pediatrician used to write scrips for it for "how do I keep my kid asleep on the plane?"
/My kid's now a senior in HS
//getting back on schedule for the school year with benedryl and melatonin.

Putting on biologist hat, I do want to say I'm not convinced, even though I take the crap, that ingesting it does a whole heck of a lot, but I'm on another drug that stops the body from making its own melatonin, so I'm not about to stop taking it...from what I understand it's pretty well studied...it's a chemical we all make (well, not ME), plus get from eating,and it's pretty well studied.

It's not about whether or not Melatonin is harmful. It's about someone deciding to give YOUR kids a drug/supplement without YOUR permission. That's effed up.

Knew a hillbilly couple that gave their kids hits of diesel fuel before bed to make them sleep. The County found out when the children were diagnosed with lead poisoning.

/sad story bro
//hope they get that "special place" in hell

Burning_Monk: Knew a hillbilly couple that gave their kids hits of diesel fuel before bed to make them sleep. The County found out when the children were diagnosed with lead poisoning.

/sad story bro
//hope they get that "special place" in hell

Diesel fuel doesn't have lead in it. It never has. Cool story, tho.

Rapmaster2000: Oh please. When I was a kid, my grandmother gave me phenobarb all the time, and I turned fine out.

/actually not kidding

same here, but it was the doctor that gave it to me. turns out that stuff has the opposite effect on me. me on speed at age 7 was not a good thing, i have the scars to prove it.

alzahra: It's not about whether or not Melatonin is harmful. It's about someone deciding to give YOUR kids a drug/supplement without YOUR permission. That's effed up.
But here's the question...what isn't "effed up?"
Would chamomile tea be effed up? That's probably a more powerful sedative.
Would a hot bath be effed up?
Aromatherapy?
How about a baby swing?
And did the parents sign a blanket 'if my kid has a fever give him tylenol' type paper? In that case since it's an off-label usage for melatonin (it says not for kids on the label), it still wouldn't be legal, but wouldn't these child care people probably feel that if they were safe enough to make decisions about drugs then a decision about what they might see as less than a drug would apply?
I didn't even let people give my son a juice box without reading it first, but I can see a couple dozen of ways this might just be stupid people, not evil intent...

I mean, I would've been scared to leave my kid in the care of people who believe in the "utter depravity" of humanity, whether they were armed with melatonin or not.

/And my generation was given mom's valium.
//Valium is my favorite color, how'd ya know?

malaktaus: I was unaware that classic rock radio station websites had news sections. Live and learn.

That isn't radio... it's CLEAR CHANNEL! It's the black mold of the radio industry! Actually, The Big One, 700 WLW does "news" for all their stations here.

One of my buds in the Army used to dip his kid's pacifier in good German white wine... and don't forget that old remedy, Gripe Water™!

My step-mom used to tell me about how she'd give her kids Dimetapp every night to make them sleep. I don't blame her, she was raising four kids alone. I'd be doing the same thing.

Whatever. The allergy meds are the only way the little monsters will shut the fark up and sit still so daddy can get some rest.

BesiktasBoy83: In the old days the nurses would put the babys p____ in thei mouth and it would send them to sleep.

And this is why I think you are an a__hole and I need to ignore your comments.

They should have fed them a nice turkey dinner instead. What is in it that makes you sleepy?