Advice/help
I am at my wits end, loosing sleep, loosing control and crying.
My little girl 4 years old behaviour is getting worse and worse every day starting around 8 months ago start of 2024, it started off with the normal "no" & ignoring me, it has now turned into hitting out, screaming in my face, breaking toys, throwing things at walls.
I have tried everything I can think of and nothing seems to work from gentle parenting, time outs in room ( this can last hours ) due to coming out of time out to carry on the behaviour, taking away TV time and tablet completely, throwing broken toys away, naughty chair & behaviour chart. I can't see a light at the end of this tunnel.
If you tell her that her behaviour is not a good girl behaviour she laughs and refuses to say sorry.
The last 2 weeks this has not started to happen in public, she will lay down in the middle of roads and when I pick her up to move her to safety she will hit and kick and then try to run back into the road, she will pick up stones and throw them
( She has road awareness - she knows to stop at roads and hold hands and that cars can be dangerous ).
And this behaviour only ramps up when her dad gets home from work.
Bedtime is also a fight - we do the whole bedtime routine, pajamas, read story, tick in, say I love you - then all of a sudden she's screaming and crying and throwing stuff, screaming let me out.
I honestly don't know what to do anymore, I'm struggling and getting so exhausted of this every day.