Hi mumsnetters, I hope someone here can offer some advice because I am feeling so low at the moment and I am not sure what I can do to change things at home.
Our DD is 6 and she is great most of the time but she is very strong willed and sometimes can be so difficult...Mornings in particular are a struggle. We literally have to repeat everything she has to do 10-20 times (going to toilet, wash hands, wash face, get dressed...), we cannot leave her to it as it wouldn't get done or take hours. This is so draining and exhausting that after repeting many times then the tone starts changing and when we have repeated the same instruction so many times, we end up shouting. She shouts back. We need to break this shouting cycle, it is really bringing me down, but it seems it is the only way she does things!
Any ideas or strategies of what to do to improve things? Unfortunately waking up earlier is no help as one of the problems is to get out of bed, and the sleepier she is, the more problems we have in the morning...we don't have a lot of time to play with to go to bed earlier either, as she has to attend afternoon club and we already struggle as it is to get homework done, shower (some days)