I know this is hard if you already prone to insomnia, but please be very careful with melatonin, especially with children. There are potential side effects on children that you should be aware of, if you're not already. I don't know the specifics of what you're dealing with, but in general behavioral changes are preferable with kids for better sleep.

Good luck to you.

Happy for you it seems that stuff works great on kids but when i take it i dont sleep at all get rest love lll

At the moment, we have come to a fork in the road regarding my sons melatonin, at the moment it is a trial but I can't really get it into him, we crush it up and put into his favourite food but won't eat that particular food if the tablet is in it but will happily eat that same food without melatonin. As my son is autistic he seems to have sensory issues regarding food and seems to notice if its been adapted so to speak. I worry about his particular sleeping habits especially when he is about to start school and will need quality sleep, hopefully school will make him tired and it will be enough to make him sleep, though he gets tired at night and goes to sleep well he will still wake and therefore he will wake me up and my quality of sleep is affected, I hate being tired and not being to sleep well.

Melatonin is great -- up to a point -- not a lot of long-term studies on it.

I'm very sensitive to all meds and even though Melatonin helps me sleep, I don't sleep through the night. Even if I do, I wake up groggy/a bit hungover from it.

Part of the problem (I'm guessing) is when I take it, I have these all-night full-color high-production dreams. It's like my mind doesn't shut off the whole time I'm sleeping.

It seems as if all the "studies" on Melatonin were done on people who have to be up early the next morning once every six months or so (as opposed to studies being done on people who have long-term insomnia). So if lack of sleep is due to anxiety, Melatonin does little or nothing.

Have you tried crushing the Melatonin up and putting it in a drink rather than food? say for example milk or a smoothie? I do this with my daughter's lactase tablets and it works well. Or maybe you can try putting it in a flavored yogurt? just a thought

Yes, I've put it in choc milk as he won't drink ordinary milk before bed and it's the 2nd night of doing so and no dramas with taking it or whatnot. We are just trialling it at this stage, I don't really want him on medication of any kind, but I just want him to sleep well. He's been waking around 6am roughly and I can deal with that, better than waking at 2am & sometimes he'll wake around 5, but he is sleeping for longer.

Celestial Seasonings also makes "Sleepytime Tea for Kids" I believe it's only grape flavor says can be served hot or cold Not sure on the age stipulations for this? Glad he's sleeping a bit better