To start from the beginning my toddler was a horrible sleeper, would only sleep 30-45minutes and would wake a million times a night. It got to the point I couldn’t cope. So with a week I was sent to tresillian. While I was in tresillian I found out I was pregnant again so the exhaustion , sickness just hit me like a ton of bricks. Then she got older she would misbehave. Dump my washing in the toilet , throw herself on the floor when she didn’t get what she wanted. Pull things out of cupboards and refuse to help put them back and there was only so much I could do as I was heavily pregnant. Now she is 3, she has grown out of day sleeps , she still misbehaves, but it comes with high pitch screaming when she doesn’t get what she wants. When asked to do anything simple like eat her dinner , have a bath , go to bed. Put toys away, so hurting her baby sister. I thought she was bored at home so tried a playgroup. We have tried time out and she just puts herself in time out as she is in it so often and that hasn’t helped. I have a background in childcare and I don’t believe she has intellectual problems. But it’s doing my head in. I actually dread spending time with her because it’s such a battle every day.
My poor neighbors who have to listen to it all day. I am going to go see someone because I feel it is so bad, I need tools to cope and to help her with why she can’t handle her emotions.
With all the kids I have been around in my life it hurts my heart that I can’t handle my own child.
I need help with my toddler.
I need help with my toddler.
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You need a referral to a child psychologist and peadiatrician. You may not believe something is going on, but you aren’t qualified to assess and diagnosis, and I’ve heard and seen to many childcare workers, and teachers miss an issue that is later picked up by doctors and specialists.
An appointment won’t hurt your child, but may save you and your child’s relationship.
Child psychologists don’t just diagnosis, they give parenting strategies based upon the issues you are dealing with.
Go to your local community health centre and see the child health nurses, they're great and so helpful and always have time to talk it through.
I hope you know youre nearly there. They're so hard when they're little, but around 4 things get easier, the battles change but its nothing as constant and draining as these first years.