Bleah, bad enough headache that I chose to skip GPT again today...
Yep, hard to keep it in mind at 2am, but this too shall pass. When I moved up to MN with my first wife, her son was just turning 3. She had let him do anything he wanted his entire life so when I came onto the scene and started saying No, it went about as well as you could expect. Once it becomes the norm and boundaries have been set and tested, it'll settle down. It'll only feel like it took years...
So i whine and cry for over an hour at 2am.
It will not take as long as you think, but it will take longer than you want it to.
We found that it helps to do something calorie expenditure intensive for an hour starting 2 hours b4 bedtime. You'll both sleep better.
Yep, hard to keep it in mind at 2am, but this too shall pass. When I moved up to MN with my first wife, her son was just turning 3. She had let him do anything he wanted his entire life so when I came onto the scene and started saying No, it went about as well as you could expect. Once it becomes the norm and boundaries have been set and tested, it'll settle down. It'll only feel like it took years...