3.5 year old wants to “try again” at tasks until exactly how she wants it to be
I’m at a loss. I don’t know if this is normal or if we need to get her checked by a professional. But often whenever our 3.5 year old is tired, she has started to want things done a certain way - and will want to try again until it’s done exactly how she had envisioned. Most of the time she will make up how she wants it done after it’s already done. For example, we will be going from the bathroom to the bedroom and I will walk ahead of her to open the door. She will scream that she wanted to open the door first and want us to go back to our positions so she can open it. And she will want us to go back to the exact positions we were in the bathroom. And if we don’t do something exactly how it was previously, she will ask to do it again (go back to the same position and start again). Things like this. It’s getting really tiring. I’m not sure what to do when it happens anymore because whatever we try - nothing changes. We try to offer her lots of options during the day and during bedtime to give her agency and autonomy… but it still happens. HELPPP