Except for the head banging.... he sound like my ds7 at that age.
I didn't sleep for his first 2 years... he has "night terrors" until he was 11 months.
I couldn't take him into public places for about 6 months because it was like letting a monkey lose in a china shop. one women watched him in a store one day when I had to go out and remark, "Wow, he's like having triples." And if I tried to stop him he would scream blue murder.
I finally came up with the sac of potatoes trick.... he would start to tantrum and I said calmly,"Stop it or I carry you out of here like a sack of potatoes." He didn't stop I picked him up threw him onto my shoulder (gently of course) and carried him out. It worked eventully. and it even worked in the house, "I'll sack of potato you to time out if you don't pull it together" and if he didn't I sacked him to the time out and stood there holding him in the time out. The big part of this, you have to be calm and matter of fact.
Once he started sleeping through the night, thing got a whole lot better. I was never able to get him put himself to sleep and still sing him to sleep every night. Make a bedtime route bath pj's bed story song snuggle till he is sleeping. Hopefully he will be like my ds7 and his behaviors will change.
I just wanted to add... I also gave him small victoies... like I would let him decide what clothes to wear, what plate he would use... I made him make a lot of small decesions about minor stuff. That wore him out, and after a while he started saying, i don't care you decide
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