My daughter is 2 years old. She is really bright and is a joy during the day. We have always had issues with night time. This is when she has temper tantrums.
Tonight has been a particularly bad one. She goes to bed early. Routine starts at 6 and she is usually sleeping for 6:30. I’ve always altered this depending on naps, etc.
At the minute, she has hand food and mouth. She is exhausted so I decided to start our routine at 5:30 instead. She was almost asleep before she started screaming bloody murder. She was kicking and punching me, running away from me and throwing things. She ended up at the baby gate at the top of my stairs screaming and screaming. Every time I tried to pick her up and comfort her she got worse.
It got so bad that I had to call my aunt as I was panicked that something was really wrong. My aunt came in and instantly my daughter cuddled into her and accepted the cuddle.
I have started to think about this more and more and I have noticed since the Christmas holidays she does not want me at all. She used to be very affection with me and only settle for me at night. Now, it’s like she hates me.
I went back to work full time when she was 8 months old so I know it’s not that. I never experienced anything like this with my 8 year old.
Does anyone have any advice? Does this go away? Is it an age and stage thing? Is there anything that I can do to make it better?