Not really, of course, but if her current course of behavior continues, I don't know what I'll do.
She has suddenly developed an aversion to sleeping. If she were three months old and constantly waking up in the middle of the night, I'd be sympathetic. However, she's almost four. In the last 10 days, she wakes up and screams for mommy to rub her back, that she's afraid of the A/C, that she wants to be closer to her sister (who is 5 feet across the room), that she wants to sleep in our bed (huge no-no), whatever. She screams for hours on end after sleeping fine for years. As recently as three weeks ago, we had to wake her sorry a$$ up in the morning.
We have tried the anger thing, the consoling thing, the ignoring thing. At 12:25 this morning she woke up, at 3:30 a.m. she was still screaming, standing in the doorway to our room. Soon after, she was asleep on our floor. Absolutely pathetic. Yet, I have no sympathy.
She had her bike taken away for 1 week. No effect. No field trips at daycare. No effect. She seems not to care that the other three people in the house are walking zombies.
Worst part: in a few weeks we go to Maine for a week. The cottages are so close together that everybody will hear her screaming. Which, in turn, will force us to leave and basically piss away $1,200.
I have no answers. Just needed to vent on that one.
She has suddenly developed an aversion to sleeping. If she were three months old and constantly waking up in the middle of the night, I'd be sympathetic. However, she's almost four. In the last 10 days, she wakes up and screams for mommy to rub her back, that she's afraid of the A/C, that she wants to be closer to her sister (who is 5 feet across the room), that she wants to sleep in our bed (huge no-no), whatever. She screams for hours on end after sleeping fine for years. As recently as three weeks ago, we had to wake her sorry a$$ up in the morning.
We have tried the anger thing, the consoling thing, the ignoring thing. At 12:25 this morning she woke up, at 3:30 a.m. she was still screaming, standing in the doorway to our room. Soon after, she was asleep on our floor. Absolutely pathetic. Yet, I have no sympathy.
She had her bike taken away for 1 week. No effect. No field trips at daycare. No effect. She seems not to care that the other three people in the house are walking zombies.
Worst part: in a few weeks we go to Maine for a week. The cottages are so close together that everybody will hear her screaming. Which, in turn, will force us to leave and basically piss away $1,200.
I have no answers. Just needed to vent on that one.