My son will be 13 months on the 16th. This evening has been particularly rough. It started with my pom escaping the fence during dinner. So I had to interrupt my son eating and go collect my dog. Then he decided he didn’t want to finish eating or basically even start eating. I put him in the bath since that always helps. It helped until I took him out.

So I was trying to get him dressed for bed since he was just absolutely tired. Well while wrestling him to get a diaper on. He keeps alligator rolling. I just snapped and yelled at him. But he was so focused on his own screaming that he didn’t even flinch.

I feel like a failure. After that I finally succeeded in getting a diaper on him then. Tried to nurse him to sleep like we usually do. NOPE. continued to scream and fight sleep. After about 10 minutes, I gave up and just put him in the crib. He fought sleep for another 5 minutes then crashed.

Earlier I checked him for a fever or anything physical that needed medical attention. He was just exhausted 😞

Edit: thank you everyone for your kind words. Turns out he was also coming down with Fifths disease. Sounds scary but better than RSV, the flu or covid.

  • curlyqute@lemm.eeOP
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    17 days ago

    I just feel horrible. I never wanted to yell like that at him 😭

    • Bronzie@sh.itjust.works
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      17 days ago

      There are two types of parents: those who never say a bad word about their kids and those who admit to periodically wanting to put the tiny human in a drawer and close it.

      The first group is lying.

      Chill, it’s normal. Kids that age are beyond exhausting at times, so just do your best.

      Sincerely Someone with a 17 month old