How do you respond when your toddler keeps singing and messing around at bedtime?
I’m honestly finding it really hard to keep my cool.
When he was a baby I was so patient and understanding but now I’m just angry with the level of defiance. Straight out laughing at me when he knows he’s making the wrong choices. I know they’re still young but he’s advanced for his age and does have a good level of understanding.
I just don’t know how to keep my cool. I want to be the loving, patient mother I was this time last year but I don’t know where she went.
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Is he doing all this singing and messing about in his cot?
My little girl will often chat with her teddies and sing while laying in her cot but she's in the dark by herself. So we just leave her to it and she'll fall asleep when she's ready. Sometimes it's 10 mins, sometimes it's 45 mins.
We are in the thick of bedtime refusal at the moment, too. There's loads of reasons as to why she doesn't wanna go to bed, need a wee again (then doesn't wee) needs more drink, needs a different teddy etc.
It's so difficult when you get to the end of the day - exhausted and they are pushing all the buttons!
When I get like this, I tend to tag out with my partner while i take a moment to calm down. If his not home, i try and just count to 10... but it doesn't always work..
Not much advice just to let you know you're not alone 🫠
Our normal routine used to be brush teeth, books and bed but she started wanting to play with her teddies and sing instead. We let her have a little play but in the end we put her in her cot and said goodnight. Sometimes she carries on singing but she falls asleep eventually.
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