DS is almost 3. Until a few months ago he was the easiest child - no issues with sleep, behaviour etc. Loved by the staff at his nursery, family members happy to watch him if we needed childcare etc. He was such a happy child and a real joy to be around.
Over the last month or so he is like a totally different child. He fights bedtimes, sometimes taking up to 2 hours to go to sleep, he has started to wake in the night and seems to have so much energy in the day. He is challenging all of the boundaries that we have in place, has started screaming back at us when we ask him to do things like tidying his toys away. I’ve also noticed a regression in his speech and he has started having accidents despite being out of nappies for over 6 months.
We have had A LOT of big life changes recently which I’m sure are the reason for the changes that we’ve seen in his behaviour.
Firstly we sold our house with plans to move into a house that we were renting out. The tenant took over 6 months to move out which put a huge delay on the works that we needed to do prior to moving in, this has resulted in us staying with my Gran. She has a small 3 bedroom house but DS does still have his own bedroom, just much less room for play and a lot of his things are now in storage.
DH is doing the renovations to the new house so is not around most evenings/weekends which I think is affecting DS also.
We also had our DD 3 months ago. DS is generally really good with her, offers to help with little tasks like fetching nappies etc and is very gentle towards her - tickles her toes, sings and talks to her.
How can we help our son to navigate his emotions? It must be so hard for him when literally everything in his life has changed, but DH and I are exhausted with everything we have going on and I will admit that we are not as patient with him as we should be at the moment which is probably making him worse.