Still sniffing in his sleep

Thanks guys, I actually feel better? I am entering those toddler years! I need to strike a balance between him listening to me and me not letting it go so far as to get me angry.
I also think that it's come down to sleep issues, he slept for 3HOURS today!! So he must have been very tired.
@Charnanay, I'm also a little dissappointed that I didn't take that womens hand with me when I left, lol
I suppose I just figured it was my fault for not handeling the dvd player episode better, I was munching, you see and wasn't keen..
So I learned a little lesson myself!

Shame memo you sound so sad!

Firstly you might want to stop projecting your feelings onto your son. What I mean by this is that you think he is sad but chances are, he is a really happy baby! I mean this in a good way too. We so often think that our child feels a certain way because if we were to display the same type of behaviour as adults then this is what we would feel. We ideally need to stop comparing child like emotions with adult emotions.

A childs emotions may always be exagerated purely because until they develop speech, they have no way of expressing themselves.

Many children hate sleep and yes your cutie is old enough to be able to maniupulate you already. I promise Dylan did the same with me but at school they had no issues with him and sleep, but he didn't take chances with them.

There is honestly nothing wrong with your child being slightly frustrated!!! They need to experience frustration to learn to deal with it.

It is perfectly normal to become really cross with your child because it does become frustrating especially when it is the same thing over and over again. We are all human. As far as smacking goes, we don't like it and sure if someone smacked Dylan I would be annoyed, but when he was young I did flick his fingers when he touched certain things. He leaves my things alone mostly now. I did however allow him to touch once so that he knew how said item felt etc. I do make sure he doesn't touch things in other homes and if a parent doesn't control her toddler in my house then I will ask the child not to touch my things.

Ideally make sure you have perfect routine and stick to it at night especially and hopefully it will encourage day sleeps too. This means an early bed time. Tried kids are miserable kids and they tend to sleep even less. Dylan went from being a poor sleeper to fairly good within 3 days and I didn't make him cry. I just allowed him to self soothe a bit.

Now he makes sure I follow routine by giving me the check list which is:

Dylan: Mommy, bath, dummy, blankie, bottle, book

He is almost old enough to have comfort items and this will make it easier too. Dylan know that he has to sleep if he wants his blankie and dummy.

Memo - LOTS of babies hate sleeping. One would think my sister is trying to kill my nephew the way he screams when she tries to get him to sleep. I think it's one of those things you just have to make peace with and accept that your child will for now, scream when it's sleeping time. As Yaz says, they do unfortunately pick up when you are tense and then seem to get even more irritated which just makes you even more tense

But, on the bright side, it won't last forever.

As for going for the DVD Player, yip, kids WILL do that. Best to just take him away and try and find something else that will entertain him for a while. Your baby is still young, so in my opinion is behaviour is normal. That's just his little stubborn personality coming through. All children can't be submissive, and personally, I prefer a stubborn child who knows what he/she wants than one with a submissive personality, but that's just me.

P.S - if anyone hit my child, hard or not, I would get up and hit them back. Again, that's just me. I think RM was recently reading a book something to this effect.

Ah memo, so sorry! I wish I had some advice for you! All I can say is: you are not alone! Lilly hates sleeping, too! We are down to 2-3 20 to 30 minute naps a day max, and that only after fighting each and every time.

I, too, get super impatient and angry - it's a vicious cycle as they pick up our feelings and get more annoyed.

I have thought of all possible reasons why she doesn't want to sleep and all I have left to say is that she probably misses us in her sleep and doesn't want to miss out on anything that's going on.

Families will ALWAYS know what's best for you and your baby...NOT!!! We all have our own unique parenting styles and even our moms must the hell accept that! I will never hit Lilly or leave her to cry - other methods may work for other mommies.

Sorry, I really feel for you!!

O forgot to add, after I finally got him down for a nap today, he is still now sniffing in his sleep! So super sad?

My baby boy gets so worked up! It's super upsetting for me. Alot of it has to do with how hard he fights his sleep, as he falls asleep he catches himself and starts screaming. After an hour I start losing my temper. Sometimes I get so angry, I find him clutching to me screaming. He has no end? Why is he so very angry? Why does he hate sleeping so much?

I'm so sad, I want my baby to be happy.
I worked last week and my moms been here. She is ofcourse convinced that it's because : I allow it..
I'm creating a monster, you see..,

Last night at my brothers, lb keeps going for the dvd player... So we all keep taking him away. By the end of the evening, SIL, brother, mother and SIL's mother is screaming at him?? AND the women hits him? He doesnt know what it is and it wasn't hard so ofcourse it didn't upset him, but the point is: "am I missing something"

I dont believe in hitting or screaming (although I have done the latter more often than I like to admit)
It's not so much that he's naughty, it's more that he's so unhappy and I dont want to spend all day fighting with him

any advise please, I'm at my wits end.

Ps. he is busy cutting all 4 molars.

Thanks