She is unwell at the moment, but she is driving me mad, she is always difficult but now is even worse. Last few nights she wakes every hour or 2hours and wants me to take her to sleep on the sofa, not sure if I should give in or if this will start bad habits.
Also she is not eating well in the day so wants to eat at night but again am worried about starting bad habits as has been waking up for food in the night for a while befor she was ill.
I am a single parent and feel stuck in the house with dd at the moment it is such hard work.
I always give into dd which makes me feel like a bad mother. And this morning she was moaning and whinging for no reason and after having very little sleep last night I lost my temper and shouted and threw her dried cheerios around the room, then she calmed down stopped moaning and calmly watched tv and ate her food.
I know that was not the right thing to do, but I do not understand dd, I normally speak to her so nicely and never shout and she walks all over the top of me. But when I lost my temper she behaved in a better way.
I do try to speak to her in a firm voice when she is being naughty but that has no effect and she often laughs at me. Recently she has started finding it funny to wack people on the head with things and when I tell her off she laughs and does it again.
I think maybe I need some sort of parenting course as I feel useless.