Hey fellow parents, we have a fantastic 19 month old guy who spreads sooo much joy around him but also seems to have a lot of issues that are really starting to take their toll.I will seperate the different problems below and hope someone reads the whole thing :)Thanks! and sorry for the wall of text incoming.SPEECHOur guy is 19 months old and does'nt say a word(he babbles a lot, like all the time...and he says some things that could be construed as words such as: Look, Cat, Mama, Papa but I can't say for certain that is actually what he means to say...I don't think this is really a problem, I´m sure it will come along by itself at the end of the day. But right now it leads to a lot of frustrations on both his and ours side, he just points in random directions and it takes ages to figure out what it is he actually wants(which is usually something he can't have, which leads into that whole hornets nest of screaming and tantrums. On the other hand he understands soooooo much and so many word, I can tell him to pick up a piece of a puzzle or book from the floor and he will jump to it. Seeing as he understands so much I don't think there is any real impediment to his speech but is there anything we can do to aid in his speech development?FOODHe has always been a happy eater, has'nt refused much and has'nt given many problems in the food department, but now it seems he wants to eat all the time and we are torn between giving him food or denying him, denying food seems very wrong, but is he eating just because he wants to and there is food available or is he actually hungry? Nobody knows.This morning(at 8) he got 1 banana and a cup of youghurt for breakfast, it didnt take more than half an hour until he was pointing at the pantry demanding some hardbread, he then ate that as well(he also got 200ml of formula at 4:30 am....more on that later).SLEEPUp until he was about 1 year he was a fairly good sleeper, kind of hard to put to sleep but once he was there he usually slept through the night in his own bed, this stopped dead after 1. He falls asleep easier but wakes up at 10/11pm and demands to sleep the rest of the night in our bed...fine...dandy whatever...but now....now he wakes up at 4 / 4:30 am....every morning and is super alert, goes into a total tantrum if we try to keep him in bed and make him sleep longer. After months of this we are a tad frazzled, our evenings usually end at 8-9pm when my gf goes to sleep first and I follow half an hour later, we have no time in the evenings together and if we it is spent half asleep on the couch. Why does he wake up this early? All that happens in that he is then suuuupertired at 9am....and just tries to find places he can hide and nap in. What can we do to help him with this? Both sleeping longer and sleeping in his own room / bed.Yesterday we finally caved in and gave him 200ml formula at 445 when he woke up....and the little monkey fell back asleep and slept til 6:30.....it was...indescribable. We did'nt sleep much more since we were just staring at him in awe...we thought...this is cracked! Did the same thing this morning, he swallowed the bottle then looked at us and laughed trying to jump out of bed.TANTRUMSHe throws them, he is very happy about throwing things in the floor when he gets mad, pulling books down, or simply going limp when we pick him up and scream bloody murder when we try to calm him down. Should we ignore? Should we try to comfort? No one is telling us anything useful.The only thing we hear on all these issues are: Aww it's just a phase, he'll get through it. And I´m sure he will, but surely not all toddlers are like this, we have friends, many of us had kids at the same time, giving us a fair bit of reference, their kids just sit on their asses all day and do nothing pretty much, ours is a tornado wrapped in a tsunami compared to those kids.Annnnnd the best part is that his little sister is due in august....we would love to have some of these issues resolved by then :)Now don't get me wrong in any of this, our little dude is awesome, he loves dancing to old 50s music, he loves drawing and reading(flipping books) and doing puzzles. He is also insanely in love with Paw Patrol and We Bare Bears which we have cut back on quite a bit in order to see if that would help. via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2ppvi8C
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