DS is nearly 4. I find him so difficult; always have to be honest. He isn’t a bad child but he pushes my buttons.
He is so unbelievably boisterous to the point where even hugging me feels aggressive - flings himself at me, gets right in my face, if he cuddles up to me he’s constantly kicking as well.
tell him not to I hear you say … well I do. Over and over. Listening skills are dire, he just doesn’t listen to a fucking word I say and I do find that so frustrating. On holiday he walked right to the edge of some stairs with no bannister or safety railing and ignored me yelling at him to move (was carrying younger child so couldn’t physically intervene) it was really stressful as I had a load of people at the top shouting down at me to get him to move and had to admit he doesn’t listen to me.
The not listening is probably at the root of our problems as I just feel like I talk to him and he doesn’t hear me although I’m fairly sure that he does. It means to get through to him I have to be snappy, horrible really and it’s awful.