We’ve just had another really lovely day ruined again by an absolutely hideous bedtime.
No matter what we do DS just loses the plot at bedtime every single night.
It’s almost got to the point where he is trying to wind me up so that I lose my temper with him so he can cry himself to sleep.
This evening he refused to put on his pj’s so I just left him to it while I put DD to bed.
When I went back to him we tidied his toys away calmly, he had a wee, brushed his teeth, I read him a story and then all hell let loose.
He kept getting out of bed and was disturbing DD by shouting through the wall , I asked him to stop a number of times and in the end rather than loose my cool I came downstairs and sat on the sofa - after five minutes he cane rushing downstairs and hit me full in the face with a cushion really really hard - enough to make me cry - then he ran back upstairs and has gone to sleep.
I just don’t know what to do with him, he’s so lovely the whole day and then so fucking angry at bedtime he’s like another child.
I’m exhausted as I know that no matter what we do during the day every evening we are going to have this battle.
My mum came to visit week and babysat two nights while we worked and he was an absolute angel for her.
So essentially it’s just me that he plays up and Ive run out of ideas of what to do to turn it around.