Tuesday, August 11, 2020

How to deal with stress with an almost 2 year old


My daughter will be two in October. She's already reached the stage where every 5 seconds it's "what's that?" Or "why?" Repeatedly. I'll answer her questions as best I can or if it's "mommy doesn't want to do x" "why" "because sometimes people don't want to do x and mommy doesn't want to do it right now" then why repeatedly. If I try to distract her she tells me to stop it or grab my face and keep asking why. She throws tantrums when it's time to go home from the park or if I ask her to hold my hand to walk across the street or when I have to refill her water cup because she asked "more please". Putting her to sleep includes an hour of her poking my eyes saying "eye" or screaming what numbers she knows at the top of her lungs in my ear. If I put her down she screams and cries out "mommy!" Until I let her sit in the rocking chair with me again and then maybe she'll be okay with going to her bed after poking me in the eyes several more times.My husband used to help me out so much with things like this (I rarely put her to bed before because he was unemployed and I have a physically stressful job) but he's recently gotten a night shift job so now dinner, playtime, and bedtime are all on me every night. I'm so stressed about starting school soon, our finances, current US/world BS, work, and my daughter screaming and throwing herself into oncoming traffic isn't helping at all. I just don't know how to deal with my stress when I can't get away from it. I also have Asperger's and depression so everything is just compounding. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2PKRhC4

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