DS is normally a happy boy. He’s incredibly active and doesn’t stay still, he doesn’t focus in anything for more than a minute, but he’s happy running between different activities, playing outside and going to playgroup etc. He’s happy with grandparents all day while he and DH are at work or, on Wednesdays, he’s happy with me at home.
However, when I come home from work on the other days, he is horrible between the hours of 4-6. Sometimes he’s whining all the way until bedtime at 7pm. He constantly whinges, nothing will settle him and nothing that makes him happy works. He also has a really bad temper and throws toys around or hits out. It’s exhausting and depressing to come home to such an unhappy boy after a busy day at work.
It used to stop at tea time(5pm) but is now impacting that too, where he’ll sit in his high hair, eat about 5 nibbles of food and then scream to come out, throwing anything I try to feed him on the floor. He used to be a good eater but is barely eating anything at tea time now.
it doesn’t happen on the weekends, providing we go out somewhere in the afternoon or in Wednesdays when it’s just us.
Any ideas on what’s going on? I hate coming home to a sad, angry little boy.