O/T (sorry) but beyond the end of my rope. *tears of desperation*
I have been around small children (many children) my entire life. The younger years are NOT a challenge to me. I am the oldest of 6 siblings (many years older) tons of cousins, worked in day cares, volunteer in schools, baby sat, etc.....In other words, I'm comfortable!
3 children of my own. Each one different from the next. Typical, I know. BUT this one. My youngest (now age 4) is my MOST challenging, and I just can't deal like I seem to be able to once upon a time. 
My BIGGEST problem is that this child DOES NOT SLEEP! She doesn't nap, and YES she still needs one. Her witching hour comes around 5:00 p.m. and some evenings are more exhausted than others. She sleeps all through the night, and wakes any where from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. depending on what time she FINALLY fell asleep.
Case in point, it is now 10:00 p.m. She is still awake! She has been in the bedroom for just a little over 2 hours now, NOT SLEEPING!
Nope, she doesn't load up on sugar or eat up until bedtime.
I'm exhausted. I RARELY get a break and so this evening stuff stresses me out.
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I completely sympathize. My
I completely sympathize. My oldest(DS9) was the exact same way starting at age 2. He would be up until around 2am and up at 6am raring to go. No nap at all during the day and acting like a child on a sugar high with no sugar items given.
My advice is to talk to the pedi about it. We did this and our pedi actually recommended giving him melatonin about an hour before bedtime. Yes melatonin to a 2 year old. We did this and it was like a flip was switched. He started sleeping for 10 hours at a time! We stopped for a while to see how things would go without. For a short time he kept up with the normal sleeping habits then it started to fade. We went back to the melatonin. Now at age 9 he has been diagnosed with ADHD(at age 7) and also takes melatonin at bedtime if he goes a couple nights with not being able to sleep. Doesn't happen often anymore because of ADHD medication but does pop up now and again. (Not saying your daughter has ADHD just saying what happened in my child's situation so hope I don't worry you)
I hope you can get some sleep tonight!
My niece is one of these kids
My niece is one of these kids and always has been. She taken melatonin now prescribed by her pediatrician (she is now 13). I remember when she was an infant - the only on who could get her to sleep was DH. She called more then once begging for him to come get her to sleep. She would wake as soon as she tried putting her down.
When she got a bit older, they used quiet time rather then bed time with her. Place her in her room - all noisy stimulating toys were kept in another room & they gate her in there. As long as she wasn't a danger to herself, they left her be & used the monitor. She would eventually sleep - it just took forever for her to wind down. Hope this helps.
I am pretty sure some of us
I am pretty sure some of us are born to be awake at night! My mom says I never slept, and she was actually upset when pregnant with my sister as she thought she would now have a toddler AND a baby refusing to sleep - my sister always slept. It is like I left her my share of sleeping too!
My BS8 is awful to get to sleep, he always has been. My mom says he is my punishment for all her sleepless nights. He wants to sleep, but he just does not drift off. He gets really frustrated at it. Eventually he drops off. Now I do not have the morning thing - both BS8 and I could sleep all day! Maybe we are just vampires too!
I think I will talk to the
I think I will talk to the pedi, cause it truly blows my mind!
We don't get her all wound up before bed or anything. She's not sugared or juiced up. She will be worse if she is over tired from the night before. Like last night she was up extra late, had a very busy day playing with her cousin, so that means this evening she was extra naughty. Almost like a "bored" naughty. Like, not sure what to do with her self type acting up. Her getting those kind of days don't happen real often, but I always know what to expect the next evening when those night do happen.
She isn't in preschool right now (as she JUST turned 4) so it's not like she has school during the day to wear her out, but omg it makes me wonder if school would even wear her out.
Yup, she was also around 2 when she stopped napping. She doesn't sleep in the car (never has) and quit the two naps a day early as a baby. It is like this kid literally can't get to sleep.
Now honestly I wish I could give a good analysis of myself as a child when i came to sleep but I can't. For one my bio mom is out of the picture, for two my traumatic childhood with an abusive environment would cause any child sleep problems. LOL Now my general anxiety keeps me awake. But in my family (dad's side) in general we are not morning people, not early risers, and can easily sleep 10 hours for the night. There are a couple of us who are night owls, but again we have anxiety that runs in the fam. (again my dad's side)
I am honestly 100% stumped on this and honestly again it really makes me think I must be doing something wrong, or that something must be wrong with her.
Then that will circle back to ME, and I must be doing something wrong.
Thanks for sharing your stories, it truly does help just knowing I am not alone.