
I’ve found my weak spot with my parenting and it’s engaging in bedtime battles with my daughter. She’s about kindergarten age and simply cannot calm her body down on her own.I’ve tried relaxation techniques and breathing exercises and many other strategies but she refuses to ever use anything she’s learned on her own and even walking it through with her usually leads to me doing it while she just watches.Consequences don’t work either of losing toys or dresses into time out. Peaceful time doesn’t work either as she just messes around the whole time. Sitting with her and watching her encourages even more of it as she has an audience and gets even more attention.I’m at the end of my rope and out of ideas. I guess I just need to vent and ask, is there any sort of physical or mental condition which would prevent a child of this age from calming down? She’s consistently doing gymnastics in her bed and any engagement (talking, consequence, or moving her) to get her to stop just feeds into it as it’s more attention and usually leads to giggles and smiles. She shares a room with her younger sister and so it is important that she not keep her up. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/3kImTGH
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