Why oh why can't my boy give me any privacy? He is 7-1/2 now and still is stuck to me like glue. He follows me from room to room to room. He bangs on the bathroom door and says "I just have to ask you something". He refuses to sleep in his own room at night and goes into total meltdown mode for hours when I try to get him to, instead he sleeps on a chaise lounge in my room. He will not even go to the room to bed unless I am in there with him. I have bribed this child with everything in the book to get him to sleep in his room. He hasn't even had the tooth fairy come because she won't come if he isn't in his bed. Now if he spends the night at my sister's house he sleeps in the guest room no problem. Why is it that he is so attached to me when I am there? He will go places with other people, he leaves me without a care in the world but when he and I are together he is all over me like a fly on sh*t. I feel like such a complainer but I really need some space. I would love him to just sleep in his room so I have some time to myself in the evenings. Is that asking for too much? Am I expecting too much from him? Some days raising this little boy I love so much is just overwhelming!
Maybe just maybe if we could get a consistent, stable Behavioral Assistant this would happen. I am not looking for miracles, just a little space to breathe in and regroup at home!
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I hope you get that space - maybe one day?
oh I have been in that position! Noah slept with me until we moved back here to Ohio from Colorado.....he was 6 at the time. We temporarily lived with my grandmother until we could find our own place.....and she had a big SLEIGH bed upstairs that he wanted to sleep in all by himself. That was the end of him sleeping in my bed....though he DOES still want to have sleepovers in my room from time to time.
He also would follow me everywhere....I don't recall ever having any free time. It was only in the past 18 months or so I finally have had "free time" and now most of that time I feel rather lost and don't always know what to do with my time! haha
hang in there...it gets better and easier!
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