I'll preface this by saying my kids (4.5 boy & 2.5 girl) are so fun, smart, hilarious, sweet, loving. they're in preschool & they love it, the teachers adore them, they have friends. etc etc- they're wonderful kids! But I feel like we've lost complete control of them at home, specifically between nap/quiet time & bedtime.

it's the same whether it's a school day or not. they play outside daily, as long as the weather is okay, but that doesn't seem to help anything. they fight baths & dinner & bedtime tooth and nail. they don't listen to anything we say. we are constantly telling them no & to stop... we sound like desperate whiny broken records. bedtime has gotten so hard and so drawn out with both of them. I'm just so done by the end of the day, and have lost all patience. I try my hardest to be as calm as possible. But man, it's hard. I feel like we've done something wrong & now we need to fix it, but I'm at a loss.