Every single night is a war. Teeth brushing takes 20 minutes, then stories, then songs, then water, then he needs to tell me about something. By the time he's actually asleep I'm exhausted. My wife has a system that works better but I cant remember it. What does your routine look like?
Water requests are the worst because there's always a legitimate reason so you can't really say no. What if you set a hard cutoff time and they can get one water before that but that's it? My kids respond better when the rule is clear ahead of time.
Bedtime is a whole production in our house. One thing that helped was getting them to bed 15 minutes earlier than we actually want them asleep. Gives wiggle room for all the requests without us losing our minds.
Every single night here too. I've heard it gets better around age 6 or 7 but honestly I'm not holding my breath. You're not alone.
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The teeth brushing thing kills me. 20 minutes for teeth that take 2 minutes to brush properly. I've started just doing it myself when it gets ridiculous, which probably defeats the purpose but at least everyone gets to bed.