Any child psychologists or counsellors around? Please help, I'm so worried about my just turned 3 year old. She was always such. Sunny, happy little girl, full of fun and beginning to show empathy for others, but over the last few months she has turned I to such a nightmare.
The last few months, possibly since before lockdown she seems so unhappy, she cries every day and is very controlling, hard to please. She sometimes makes a moaning, groaning, mithering noise but can't verbalise what's wrong, or what she wants/needs. We try and empathise and suggest what she's feeling and why, all the stuff the books say (!) but it doesn't seem to make much difference.
Bedtimes are a nightmare, she shares with her sibling (nearly one), and one of us will lie down with her as she goes to sleep. Even this is becoming difficult, she doesn't nap any more but does seem tired in the day. Despite this cannot get her to sleep earlier.
I am absolutely at my wits end, and wondering if my child is seriously disturbed.