I don’t know if I’m posting in the right place here, but I’m having problems with my DD (6).
I’m not really sure on how to explain so please bear with me and make of it what you can! Any advice, words of wisdom or just kindness will be very much appreciated!
Firstly food - she will eat cereal (not always with milk), toast (with jam or chocolate spread), sandwiches (jam or chocolate spread, not with butter), yogurts, actimel, fruit, dry cream crackers, dry plain breadsticks, crisps, biscuits, chocolate, sweets, cheese and garlic pizza, garlic bread, spaghetti bol (up until a couple of weeks ago), sausages, chips, chicken nuggets/dippers (unless they look ‘different’ to what we usually buy), a roast dinner for her is carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, cabbage, she won’t eat any roast meat. And last night decided she doesn’t like carrots and broccoli. This is about her lot for food.. and she refuses to try anything new.
I’m a bit concerned that she is deciding she doesn’t like some of these things anymore and I can’t get her to try anything new to add to her list of “likes”.. any advice on this please?
Secondly sleep - we have always had a 7pm bedtime, she goes up to bed fine, we have a story and a cuddle and then she has some time for her own reading. She gets up 5/6 times through the night, most nights. I can’t figure a reason for this waking! If she wakes before I am in bed then she won’t go back to bed until I go to bed. I’m shattered! Again any advice to help her stop waking? She looks tired constantly and always says she tired but just won’t sleep!
Thirdly water and noise - she is absolutely terrified of rain and running water, to the point of if it is raining just a little she cries, screams and physically shakes in fear. She won’t be in the same room if a tap is running, be that running a bath or filling the sink to wash up. She thinks it will overflow and flood. Even when I am stood there next to the tap waiting to turn it off. She is fine in the bath, paddling pool, water slide so it is not a fear of water itself. We have talked about why we need rain and what the garden would look like if we didn’t have rain and she understands all that but just doesn’t like it! I have explained about the little drain hole in the top of the bath and sink so she knows there is no way it can overflow and flood because the water would go down there and out into the drain outside.
As for noise, she doesn’t like the sound of the rain, loud music, bangs, fireworks, airplanes, even an electric toothbrush..
Lastly weeing - she seems to be constantly sat on the toilet! It doesn’t matter how much or how little she has had to drink she wees for England! If we are going out I ask her to go to the toilet, she can go several times before I have managed to get my things together to leave the house. And then as soon as we get to where we are going 10 minutes journey or 2 hour journey she needs to go as soon as we stop..
She won’t drink water, she drinks orange squash and has one carton of OJ a day. Sometimes a cup of decaf tea.
Any advice anyone can give me on one or all areas I would be very grateful.
I’m mentally and physically exhausted at the minute and feel so close to breaking point as I don’t know what to do next. My tears won’t stop today 😢