Hi Everyone! I have a 22 month old little boy who is driving me crazy! For the last 6 months or so he refuses to sleep in his own room. He screams and screams for hours and keeps coming out of his room (he can open the door) He used to be so good. Since then he sleeps in bed with us and only goes to bed when we do. We have a 7 week old baby boy so as you know by the time we get to bed its already around 11pm! He becomes so over tired and hyperactive due to lack of sleep. He never listens when we tell him to go to bed or to stop jumping around on the sofas (hes actually fallen off onto his head a few times!) etc. We have tried to give him a light smack but he just laughs like its a big joke! I just dont know what to do anymore, I'm absolutely exhausted as baby suffers from colic aswell! I'm worried I'm going to lose it one of these days. Any help would be much appreciated!

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Hi, for whatever reason (poss birth of new baby, although you say there were probs before, not being firm and consistant, and the list could prob go on!) your 22 month old is controling your family life, rather than give advice as prob could reply with a couple of pages! go to supernanny.co.uk - here you'll find advice, tips re: your subject and general parenting probs. Good Luck Vicky x

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hi i think u need to look closer to home. ur giving into ur son by letin him get his own way, sleepin in ur bed and stayin up all night. u rly need to put a stop to it as the longer u leave it the harder it will get. have u thought about puttin a safety gate up at his bedroom. let him cry at the gate, keep puttin him back to bed, without talkin to him and keep goin on lyk that. it will b hard work and will completely knacker u out, but if u carry on lyk this hes gona push u even more until u crack up. if he nos he can get away with 1 thing hel keep goin, tryin ur patience. i no hes young but kids are so intelligent, they prob know more than us. ur sons world has prob been turned upside down with ur new baby arriving, and he will be trying everything to get the attention hes missin out on, and its workin. try to have a tym in the evening where its just u and him. give him a bath, and snuggle up on the sofa, buy a plastic "grown up cup" and let him drink his milk from it after his bath, keep tellin him hes a big boy and give him plenty of praise for this, and read him a nice story, whilst cuddled up to u. then put him to bed, and sure he will cry, but after a few days he will be fine. u just need to make sure u stick to it and dont give up, even if it means u puttin him back t bed 100 times. jst think to urself it will get easier in a couple of days. and the 1st tym he goes to bed reward him for it. i hope u dnt think my words are harsh, but it will only get worse if u let it. good luck and keep us all informed luv stacey rhiannon(2) and 40+1 wk bumpy xx

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I really do sympathise with you as at 22 months our angel turned into a devil overnight. Some days it seemed like he was deliberately trying to push me and break my will! It was awful and so frustrating as for a few weeks there were more shouting, crying and screaming tantrums than nice happy times. He started coming into our room in the middle of the night and crying at the side of the bed until we let him in, we would give into him and then he would go fast to sleep and we would be pushed out or have a foot stuck in our ribs, this was no good as we were both knackered at work the next day while he could have a 2 hour nap at nursery! I decided that it wasn't working for us so I started to try the naughty corner (the step didn't work as he loves sitting on the stairs and slapping the back of his hand he thought was mummy clapping with him and would laugh!) After being in the naughty corner twice and us ignoring him while he was there worked during the day and the tantrums and bad behaviour stopped (I think he's been in the naughty corner 3 times over the last 4 months). At night time I would keep putting him back in his bed, the first night it was about 20 times when he eventually gave up, the next night it was twice and that is the last time he did it (4 months ago). I can only imagine what it's like going through this with a small baby aswell, but its only a short phase they go through, if you get to nail it on the head before he realises he can control you. Maybe sometime with him on his own might help a bit aswell, family time with the four of you is nice and special, but he would also benefit from a liitle time with you and dad on his own, even just an hour in the park or something like that might make him feel he has your full attention. Hang on in there it won't last forever! Emma & Thomas (26 months)

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