How do you handle a toddler that laughs at being told off?
My 3 year old has become very difficult recently, she used to be a good sleeper than all of a sudden she started getting out of bed constantly at bedtime, we put her back to bed, she laughs, we tell her off, she laughs, we ignore her, she throws herself against the radiator, so we have to intervene.
We can't just ignore this behaviour when we are terrified of her hurting herself.
She shares a room with her older sisters 6 and 12 and its unfair on them, the 6 year old can't help but laugh at her little sister laughing and 12 year old is frustrated cause she just wants to sleep.
I honestly don't know what to do
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I can only offer one sturdy thing that’s helped us. Melatonin. Our son, his ENTIRE second year would scream from dusk to dawn. Every single night. And he wouldn’t nap during the day. We tried everything. It was a year of absolute hell and all I could do was go sit in my car at 3 am to scream and ball my eyes out myself. It was so agonizing. As soon as he turned 3, we introduced melatonin and haven’t looked back. He now sleeps through the night, and that is truly the only thing that helped us.
I don't know how to help, but I can provide empathy, because my 3 yo stepson laughs when he gets in trouble as well. It's frustrating when they don't understand what we're telling them, and that they don't follow instructions!