{"id":369,"date":"2026-07-28T14:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/blog\/sueno-en-verano\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T14:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:00:03","slug":"its-eleven-oclock-at-night-and-hes-still-awake-why-summer-disrupts-sleep-and-how-to-get-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metodovicon.articagency.net\/en\/blog\/its-eleven-oclock-at-night-and-hes-still-awake-why-summer-disrupts-sleep-and-how-to-get-it-back\/","title":{"rendered":"It's eleven o'clock at night and he's still awake: why summer disrupts sleep (and how to get it back)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It's eleven o'clock. Outside, you can still hear the neighbors on the terrace. Inside, your son has been pacing for two hours, getting up, asking for water, laughing, crying. And you, who have been holding on all day, feel what little you had left slipping away.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And the thought appears:<\/span> \"If I could at least sleep, I could handle everything else.\"<\/em><\/p>\n

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I understand. Sleep is the piece that holds everything else together. When it breaks, everything breaks: patience, humor, behavior, language, your ability to enjoy summer. And in summer, it breaks with tremendous ease.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It's not that he's \"become spoiled\"<\/span><\/h2>\n

In Spain, in July, it's daylight until almost 10 p.m. And light is the signal that tells the brain when to start producing melatonin, the hormone that makes you sleepy. If at 9:30 p.m. the sun is still shining through the window, your child's body simply isn't getting the signal to sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Add to that the heat\u2014which makes it harder to lower body temperature, essential for falling asleep\u2014the long naps after the beach, the late dinners, the unstructured days, and the overstimulation of a full day of stimuli. It's not that he's become capricious or that you've \"indulged\" him too much. It's that his internal clock has lost its bearings.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And in many children, especially those with autism, that clock was already fragile. Summer doesn't create the problem: it exposes it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What you can control<\/span><\/h2>\n

You can't change the time the sun sets. You can change almost everything else:<\/span><\/p>\n

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