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I would watch for real, back and forth conversation: can she build on someone else's idea? Or does she just lecture?


Okay, I'll do this and ask her preschool teacher about it. She can certainly dominate, but she does back and forth with me.

Last night, New Year's Eve, we let her stay up and she fell asleep in the LR at 9 pm. Later on, around 2:30 am, after a fitful sleep, she had a screaming, thrashing melt down. I think it was because she didn't go through her normal, rigid night time routine. I had to redo the entire bed time routine, including saying her prayers exactly the same way every night, to get her to sleep.

The extremely rigid routine bit is distressing, but I'm learning to work with it.