Help me please. My almost five year old just won't sleep and I don't know how to handle it anymore.
The thing is he can sleep through the night sometimes in his own bed but since starting school he's really struggling, he's awake for long periods from 1 am ish (2 hours or more). If he comes into my bed he wriggles, talks, asks to play... this is starting to really aggravate me as I am just not a nice person if I don't have enough sleep and it's been going on for weeks now.
So it ends in a battlefield. He's become so defiant and he shouts and screams and makes horrible threats when I put boundaries in. Like ask him to at least be quiet and stay in his room.
I just feel so sad and angry over this, I'm not handling it well at all. Why is he so defiant he just seems to think he can do whatever he wants.