DD (4yo) has been having trouble going to sleep for the past week or two and on the last couple of nights has stayed up crying until about 10pm. Now I know the general sleep advice and I'm partly guilty because I've gone in to her too much and should be leaving her to have her temper tantrums alone.
BUT why did my sister have to inflict a half hour lecture on me about how dd was just trying to wind me up and would end up a spoilt child unless I did the right thing (ie what sis says). Much as I love her, she doesn't have kids, precisely because she'd go to pieces, so she's not best placed to tell me how to handle mine. Ok, she means well but ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH.
Why do people without kids think its 'so bl**dy obvious' what to do??? Don't they realise that kids don't read cc'ing books and don't know when to shut up and go to sleep and that us parents doing what seems best is NOT necessarily going to turn them spoilt.
Sorry, I'm just frustrated!!!!! I'm not the most confident mother at the best of times and I don't need this. A quick suggestion of letting her cry would have been fine but this was a half hour lecture ffs!!!