re: Parenting question - 4 year old

Gotta set a solid routine and stick to it. My oldest wined and called my wife back into his room when she was home, went right to bed for me. Youngest would fight like you’re talking about when she was home, some nights it lasted for hours.

The reason they didn’t do it for me is when she wasn’t home we had a routine and stuck to it, they knew it was bed time and I wasn’t going to delay with fighting or whining.

I also think it’s horrible that parents give their kids melatonin to make them sleep, creating a dependency on something like that for a child seems cruel.

Kids are hard, it’ll get better but in the moment it seems like it’s never going to end.