Before I start, I'm sure some people are going to have something negative to say. Please don't. If you can't be positive/helpful please don't comment because I feel like a shit mum without you telling me I am. I already know this.
My son is 3.5 and he's always been hard work but over the last few months his behaviour has really declined. For context we have another child who is two.
His sleep is probably the main issue. He goes to bed at 7 and sometimes it'll take a good hour to get him to sleep. We have to sit in with him until he's asleep otherwise he just screams and screams.
Once he's asleep, he doesn't stay asleep. We have the odd night where he'll sleep through until maybe 5am but that's very rare. Most nights, like tonight, he's up at 9 screaming and shouting. When I go in to him, he'll make up every excuse he can think of as to why he's screaming and shouting.
We will have this multiple times a night.
Were absolutely exhausted. My marriage isn't great because of this and were both so tired. I'm a SAHM and my husband works full time.
Because he doesn't sleep, his behaviour throughout the day is just awful. He doesn't listen to me, we have tantrums over absolutely everything and he'll complain all day that he's tired. And repeat every day. For months.
I don't know what to do or what I'm looking for really. He's got a groclock that he understands and ignores, we've tried a weighted blanket, reward charts, being firm, trying to be understanding, white noise, a light, no light, nothing is working and I'm at the end of my tether. Our daughter has the odd bad nights sleep but on the whole is a lovely little girl and sleeps really well I just don't know what to do about my son.
Someone tell me this is a normal phase and he'll come out the other end because I don't know how many more nights like this I can stand ðŸ˜