My ds is 3yo, normally an absolutely lovely, sweet, caring and affectionate little boy who is full of nothing but smiles and laughs 99% of the time. Never went through the dreaded terrible twos like his dsis, never caused any sorts of problems.
The past month has been a nightmare though. He's in the middle of waiting to be seen by a physiotherapist to determine if he's got a condition called hypermobility, basically causes him some problems with walking, he's super flexible and he's having pain in his legs. It also means that he refuses point blank to walk anywhere as his legs hurt after more than five minutes (not sure how much of it is him being lazy and him genuinely being in pain). If I try and make him walk he throws himself down on the ground and nothing will make him move (and I've tried absolutely everything from bribery and cajoling, threats of going home to bed and not getting to do what he wants etc). He won't even play in the park!
The sheer volume of his screams and the tears he's crying while flinging himself on the pavement when trying to get him to nursery/home/shopping has me exhausted and dreading going out (as well as really nasty looks from others when I refuse to carry him because he needs to walk in order to help him get any better).
And then there's the matter of him suddenly hating nursery when normally he loves it, full on screaming matches whenever I try to leave him there, the nursery staff have to literally tear him out my arms as he's holding on so tight (and I agree with them that it's best not for me to hang about, he only gets worse and refuses to settle but as soon as I'm away he calms right down and spends a happy couple hours there).
He's become a screaming constantly sort of child, for every little thing. If I turn the telly off because he's sat and watched it most of the morning (he doesn't watch TV all day btw, only for a couple hours in the morning/before bed) when I tidy his room up and ask him to help, when I tell him he can't have something to eat because I'm making dinner (and don't get me started on him refusing to eat breakfast and lunch and screaming instead for fruit/yogurt/crisps), if his sister goes anywhere near him (which is heartbreaking as there's only 18 months between them and they were so close! She's 4 going on 5 end of this year), or if I try to do something by myself (like go to the toilet, full scale meltdown over that one today).
And suddenly he's started hating baths!!! He used to love them, now he screams like he's being murdered and I swear someone is going to think I'm trying to drown him because of it. I've not been able to wash him properly in over a week because he's constantly desperately trying to get out of the bath and nothing I say or do will calm him down.
He wants to be around me constantly too, being held and cuddled and if I try and put him down he cries so hard he's in hysterics and almost throwing up.
The doctor couldn't find anything wrong with him, couldn't offer any explanation for his behaviour, nothing in his life has changed dramatically and I'm at the end of my tether now. I'm beginning to hate being around my son and the guilt is making it even worse to deal with.
My dd was a nightmare at 2/3 in the trying to be incredibly independent/she was always right/tantrum if she didn't get her own way department but nothing like this.
He's been kidnapped by aliens hasn't he? What do I do??? Beginning to dream of running away, there's not an hour that goes by without his screaming and I can't take it anymore. Single mum with no family or friends around either so can't even ask anyone for help here, normally I don't need to either but I can't take it now 