OMG she's driving me absolutely bonkers!! To the point where I'm starting to wonder if there's something more going on with her, but there's nothing that stands out as something ITMS.
Ok, she's always been my difficult child. From the day she was born.
She was born a screamer. Colicy for months, because of this her routine as a NB started with her nights being 3am - 2pm. She would just scream to sleep. It was so hard to deal with at the time.
I managed to get her back to 1am bed times by 10 weeks old, but it took years to get her into a decent, before 11pm routine.
She has alot of trouble with her routine being broken. As a baby, the very rare occasions we'd sleep somewhere else for a night, she would scream for hours on end & would not sleep. I remember a birthday of mine. We stayed at MIL's the night, & she was ok til somewhere around midnight. I was still up, so when she wouldn't settle back down, took her out to sit with us. An hour later she was still awake, so I went to bed hoping that'd help her sleep. After 3 hours of screaming, at 4am I took her for a drive, almost an hour later she settled & fell asleep. The second I got out of the car she was awake screaming again. She was about 7 months old.
Again at a friends place. After 3 solid hours of screaming, we get up & go home at 3 or 4 am. This time she was about 16 months old.
She's always been loud & full on. She simply doesn't understand quiet, lol!
Its a bit like DS. He's 2 turning 3 & can be quiet if he remembers, but forgets in seconds. I guess most kids are like that. But even Bri's whisper is over the top loud!
She started school this year. She was only 4.5 at the start of the year, but she was too much at home. She needed stimulation, more than I could give her & I couldn't afford 5 days of day care. Not only that, she'd started to refuse to go. Would cry the second she found out it was DC day & insist that she didn't want to go. Seperation anxiety I think.
But she's loved school. Every second of it. Not one day has she not wanted to go. I have to fight her to stay home when she's sick! These holidays are going to be fun for her. She still doesn't understand holidays/weekends etc.
I don't know how to explain her bahaviours? Kind of compulsive? Like she can't control it?
She's 5.5 & still draws on the walls. I don't mean the odd scribble here & there, we have drawing on every wall in the house & thats with it cleaned off at least once a month.
I don't understand it. She knows its wrong. She knows she'll get in trouble, but she'll still sneak off to her bedroom, hiding a pen or pencil & draw on the walls, or on her bed.
I just bought her & DS a $500 set of bunk beds. I told her if she draws on the wall, or her bed I'd take it back. I'm telling you, if you saw the amount of pen/pencil/texta on that bed, wall & roof, you'd think I do nothing. You'd think it was years worth of drawing. You wouldn't know it'd been all cleaned off not so long ago for a house inspection.
I've told her if she keeps going & the real estate see's it, they'll make us move out & we won't have a house any more. I've yelled, smacked, taken every pencil/texta I find & throw it in the bin, but she still finds them. I don't know where or how, coz I can never find one when I need one.
She's a very emotional, sensitive child. Its very rare that I smack her. Absolute last resort, but I do, because i don't know what the hell else to do at the time!
If I send her to her room, she & tell her she's to stay there, she gets so upset she vomits at times. & she's soooo loud! I can't imagine what the neighbours must think!
This (the drawing) has mostly been in the last 6 months. Well the worst of it has been the last 6 months. I just don't get this. The last 2 weeks I've also had a hard time getting her to get enough sleep. I'm hoping this is just more about the end of the year, but I dunno.
We had an afternoon at the beach, then BBQ at the park with friends. We were home about 8.15, but the kids wouldn't have gotten to sleep til at least 9. Since then Bri is often awake well after 9.30/10pm, despite being sent to bed at 8. 7.30 last night!
I'm having to wake her up in the mornings & she winges about being tired. So I try telling her stop playing when you go to bed! Go to sleep! Light on or off, she won't sleep.
Last night I walked in there at 9.30, after sending her to bed at 7.30 coz they were both so tired & taking pens out of her hand again. I turned on the light & there was MORE drawing on the wall & bed. I told her to get off her bed & made her sleep on the floor
Told her, thats it, I'm taking your bed away like I said I would. I also told her that if she didn't wake up herself this morning, she would be staying home. Its their last day today. They're at the pool & waterslide for the day. Sure enough she was awake at 7.30. Probably had something to do with the phone ringing then though
Mum is a self diagnoser IYKWIM. Maybe its this, maybe its that, read this. I've always looked into/read it, but it hasn't been the case.
I would like to have her tested for ADD/ADHD, even though the school doesn't think she is. They just think she's a loud attention seeker. Always taling over everyone else to make sure the teacher hears her.
She is sensitive to food colourings, so I'm careful with what I give her, but she's still a real handful.
I don't know. I was going to add more about her, but my mind has just gone blank. Sleep deprivation will do that.
I don't know what to do. The drawing on the walls is going too far & I don't know how the hell to stop it!!
I have no advice sorry, but your story makes me sad and angry. I have no idea what I'd do in that situation, how tough for you 
). So we've just left it and tried to save up but things just keep cropping up that eat at our savings.
) at 9am for the Stanford Binet testing. I found a different psych that does the ADOS assessment over 4 1-1.5hr sessions for $180 each appointment and if you have a paed referral you can claim $80 back each appointment. So Im going to book that for whenever the next available appointment is. Atleast then it isnt upfront $$$, the only downside is it'll take around 1-2mths to finish up and get the results. 
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