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Patience.

Dd2, patience with her needs and slower speech.

Dd1, patience with the incessant questioning!

getting my child to sleep. she's 13 months and a beast to put to bed. its like a 1-2 hour process every night with the tears, and she still wakes up several times during the night. i've been a zombie for months.

Since taking my positive discipline parenting class my old challenges (yelling at DS, lack of patience, massive meltdown on both me and DS) are all fading away miraculously.

For now our challenge is still a bit of me fearing at pick up time from school. DS (4.5 yo) is usually tired and he is like a ticking time bomb at pick up. He would go into massive tantrum mode if I make one wrong move. So everyday at pick up to bedtime I feel like I am walking on egg shells.

The other thing is his need to "win" and/or "be the first". He can throw a massive tantrum if another kid wash his hands first before he does.

Transitions... Pacifier, and going from co-sleeping to big girl room in anticipation of baby sister's arrival.

Mine is always the same--just keeping all the plates spinning. The daily grind. Wake up every day at 5:45, get ready for work while having a child clinging to my leg (because I have early risers), long commute to work, work grind while making appointments and fielding emails about preschool PTA stuff, long commute home with stops to run errands, buy groceries, get home and play with kids, try to cook dinner with kids who want my attention literally clinging to my legs again, feed kids dinner, pack their lunches for the next day and clean up dinner. FINALLY DH gets home and we split and each of us takes a kid and does bath, pajamas, story, bed. Clean up living room and kitchen. Be a zombie on the couch for an hour. Go to sleep. Wake up and do it again.

What's missing in my schedule is exercise time, ME time, time to do beauty treatments or shop or do anything to make me not a frazzled mom. =/

Ongoing attempts to nightwean. He's come so far from needing to be repeatedly nursed/rocked/nursed again, and then eventually just rocked (for freaking forever each night till allllll the way asleep) and now I just lie next to him and he rolls around and falls asleep practically by himself! But... he wakes up at 3 or so and just wants to nurse on and off till morning. I am so weak at that hour I can't do anything else besides what's gonna get me back to sleep faster. Even though I wake up for a few seconds over and over and over. I wish we could wait it out but I've been trying to wean for his teeth. I just need to let him cry it out, while I hold and cuddle him, but it's so tough!

I am trying to figure out solids and baby proofing.

Feeding the baby lately has been a challenge because I have to balance what the pediatrician told us what to do with what DH thinks the baby can handle with the reality of what I am seeing.

@mrbee: Trying to get this child to not kill himself. Newly mobile and he is into everythinggggggggggg possible. Not fun.

DD1: Oppositional behaviour - refusing to eat, refusing to go to the toilet, refusing to leave the house. Oh and anger - we need to work on managing anger.

DD2: Sleep. She a dream unicorn baby compared to her sister, but she never did recover from the 4 month regression and I'm really hoping she starts sleeping through soon.

Teething. So much drool! And the rash from the drool. But where are the teeth???