My 3 year old has suddenly started going to bed at 9pm and waking at 5am. It’s driving me mad.
He’s always been an early riser but before we could usually get him to sleep at 7pm. He doesn’t nap anymore unless we are driving somewhere but this is only ever once a week.
Gro clocks don’t work. He doesn’t listen to instructions. He doesn’t care about sticker charts. I have tried to motivate him by telling him if he stays in bed until the sun comes up on the gro clock he will get a toy he wants but that hasn’t worked either.
I went in his bedroom this morning and told him to stay quiet and in bed until the sun came up but he just didn’t listen so I left and now he is screaming his head off so my partner has come in with him but he is still throwing a tantrum. He has a gate on his door so do we just leave him to cry?
3 years of broken sleep, plus a 8 month old baby who wakes twice a night and I’m just not a functioning human anymore. Plus I’m really starting to resent the 3 year old. At least before I had a semblance of an evening but now one of us has to lie in bed with him until he falls asleep.