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Originally posted by GoOfYFoOt
reply to post by smyleegrl
1) Is there any electrical circuits or breaker panel in the child's closet? If not, where is the nearest panel? Any in the area under the child's bedroom, near the closet?
2) An experiment; disconnect all unnecessary electronic devices from the wall outlets before heading off to bed. This includes the TV, microwave, game consoles, radios, computers and the like, from every room. Each evening, at bedtime, store the cell phones as far away from the child's bedroom as possible. Repeat this for a week/ 7 days. Keenly observe if there are any behavioral changes occurring with the child, especially at night. I know this will be a pain, but it would help rule out EM fields.
Originally posted by GoOfYFoOt
reply to post by smyleegrl
I sent the link to the OP to a few in my network as well as other acquaintances with insight, requesting opinions.
The following quote is from one who is quite close to our group and who has been very helpful with similar issues before. Upon receiving his permission to repost this, here is what he said:
1) Is there any electrical circuits or breaker panel in the child's closet? If not, where is the nearest panel? Any in the area under the child's bedroom, near the closet?
Will try this when we return home in a couple of weeks.
2) An experiment; disconnect all unnecessary electronic devices from the wall outlets before heading off to bed. This includes the TV, microwave, game consoles, radios, computers and the like, from every room. Each evening, at bedtime, store the cell phones as far away from the child's bedroom as possible. Repeat this for a week/ 7 days. Keenly observe if there are any behavioral changes occurring with the child, especially at night. I know this will be a pain, but it would help rule out EM fields.
No, we are near practically nothing....in the middle of nowhere. We are about a mile and half from train tracks.
3) Is the home near any microwave towers, or radio towers, or electrical energy transmission towers, or a cluster of electrical transformers? If so, how far or how near? Again, a matter of EM fields.
About age 3, when he became particularly articulate, he began to fear going to sleep in his room. This was at the previous house, and he said monsters were in the room. I thought it might just be an excuse to sleep with us in our room, but he was really afraid. Very happy when we moved to our new house, but about six months or so into our new house he wanted to sleep with his overhead light on. About eight months ago or so he began to want his closet closed. Despite the closet fears, he will open the closet during the day to get toys if someone else is with him. If the door is closed, he will play in his room.
4) At what point in the child's life did he become sensitive to the emotional/mental discomforts of their other home? Did any specific event occur prior to that point in the child's life?
The are was farmland, as far as I'm aware, and the development has been there for at least fifteen years. Our house is newly built, we moved in about 9 months after it was built. The area is lightly forested, but still close to the center of town (the total population of our town is in the low thousands, not sure of the exact number). We have deer, rabbits, foxes, hawks, turkeys, and coyotes that frequent the area.
5) What is the area like, the home is built on, prior to the housing development? Was it wooded? Was it some sort of business area? Was it developed previously? If so, what was it used for?
Not that I'm aware of.
6) Has anyone else in the neighborhood or nearby said anything about it?
The old house was approx. 15-20 minute drive away. The new house lays west from the old house. The old house was a mill house (cruddy houses that were made for factory workers to live in). We moved into our new house in April. That October, my husband returned to the old house (as he did periodically, we were attempting to fix it up to try and sell it). He mowed the yard and then turned the heater on and off. The heater apparently sparked a wire problem b/c the house burned down that night. We had to demolish it.
7) How distant is the current home from the previous home? What direction does the previous home lay from the current home?
Originally posted by milkyway12
May I ask you to do an experiment? If you could possibly try putting a radio into your son's closet and possibly turn it to a Christian radio station , or if you don't mind your son hearing the music , you could put it openly in his room and just turn it down to where it's bearly audible so as not to disturb him.
Or simply the music could help your son sleep. It is hard or me to sleep without some form of background noise because I tend to start thinking about day to day life. So I need something to sort of lul me to sleep. Also , the radio could dampen house noise so creeks are muffled by the slight sound of the radio.
I don't want to intrude on you with such a request. Just offering a suggestion.