Can somebody please advise me on my child's behaviour. I'm desperate. So she's almost 4 years old. She is very clingy to me and has been since she was very little but shes getting better with this as she gets older. So the real issue is bedtime has just become an absolute nightmare in the past 6 weeks. Myself and my partner both hate it. We alternate each night who reads stories and puts her to bed. There is never an issue with her dad when I'm not here, she is the best but murder when I'm here for both of us.. so she is doing this every single night. She starts by saying love you, sweet dreams, night night, see you in the morning, night.. then u have to repeat every single one of them after her and then she starts all over again.. she could say this up to 20 times and if u don't repeat it exactly as she said then she gets so upset and in an awful state. Example, if she says night night and you say night.. bedtime is taking over an hour, sometimes more and often ends up in tears on both ends. This is also rolling over into her going into pre school now too or me leaving the house, having to say all this on repeat before she will walk in or let you leave. She also is doing this with hugs and kisses. Wanting a hug, then a kiss on the lips, then on the cheek and you have too do the same thing back to her. She calls and calls me numerous times so more often then not her dad will tell her I've gone to get milk or something and she will go straight to sleep. Nothing has changed at in her daily life. We have tried a reward chart for bedtime and praised her the one night she went straight to sleep but its not working. Sorry for the long post but I'm one desperate mammy at this stage 😞😞