Discipline: Preschooler, The First Years

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My 3 Year Old Doesn't Sleep

Please help, I'm so frustrated, I just want to cry. My 3 year old doesn't seem to sleep more than 8-9 hours in a 24 hour period. Aren't kids this age supposed to get 11-12 hours of sleep in a day? She's been out of her crib for two months, and she started preschool earlier this week. Our bedtime routine is a nightmare (for me), and it has been for a while, not just recently. I start with the end of her TV show at 8:15, then it's brushing her teeth, which usually takes 15 minutes to half an hour because she doesn't want to cooperate,...

Grounding

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What Is up with My 4 Year Old???

OK... so for the past couple of weeks my son, who is in Pre-K, has been getting into trouble at school... more so than the usual. Any time I ask him about it he pushes the blame on a classmate or he tells me the teacher is mistaken. Yesterday we had the middle of the year parent-teacher conference and further addressed his recent behavioral regression. On the plus side, she said she had never seen a child his age so advanced in mathematics, but he is regressing in the behavior department. He no longer thinks that he has to sit in carpet...