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am I being unreasonable?
Just a question, my four year old daughter has started waking the middle of the night and screams for me to get her a drink. This started about three weeks ago after she was recovering from a cold. The last few nights she has begun escalating to insisting even when I give her a drink that she needs something to eat. Because she shares a room with her sisters it's a bit of a domino effect as she wakes up the whole household.
Anyway tonight I told her she was being unreasonable and that I was not to be woken up every few hours to refill her cup, and I was absolutely not going to cook her anything at stupid 'oclock. (not my exact words... just venting on here as I can't in front of her). She proceeds to have a massive tantrum and I am down here on the computer wondering if I've done the right thing or if I'm being too hard on her.
Surely at the age of four you need not scream the walls down to get your mum up every couple hours unless you are sick or having a nightmare right?
Am I doing the wrong thing for telling her off? I work nights so the nights I am home I really really need my sleep and if I'm honest it's really making me feel mad so I worry maybe I'm over reacting.
Thank you
xx
Anyway tonight I told her she was being unreasonable and that I was not to be woken up every few hours to refill her cup, and I was absolutely not going to cook her anything at stupid 'oclock. (not my exact words... just venting on here as I can't in front of her). She proceeds to have a massive tantrum and I am down here on the computer wondering if I've done the right thing or if I'm being too hard on her.
Surely at the age of four you need not scream the walls down to get your mum up every couple hours unless you are sick or having a nightmare right?
Am I doing the wrong thing for telling her off? I work nights so the nights I am home I really really need my sleep and if I'm honest it's really making me feel mad so I worry maybe I'm over reacting.
Thank you
xx
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Maybe ask her if there's a rason she's waking up in the night, if there's anything she's worried about etc. I personally would let her take one drink of water up to bed with her (I've had this with my ds aswell!) and explain in very firm terms that this has got to last her the whole night. She's old enough to understand this.
Perhaps reverting to the old stickers if she manages to go a whole night without waking you up would work?
Good luck!xx
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