$260 per week, housekeeper comes twice a week for about 8 hours total. Cleans whole house, washes/folds/puts away laundry. Caveat is she only speaks Spanish. She’s worked for me for going on 8 years so that $260 is after raises and doesn’t include Christmas bonus and we give her some paid days off each year.

I am desperate for advice. My almost 3yo toddler has suddenly started screaming bloody murder every night when my husband or I try to leave the room. She never was happy for us to leave, but this screaming is next level. When she was newly 2, she had some bedtime tantrums but nothing like this. She has a 3 month old sibling, so I’m guessing part of this is sleep regression related to that. We have a very solid bedtime routine that hasn’t changed (bath, books, songs, bed). We spend so much of each day playing with her and connecting, so the rhetoric of needing connection does not apply here. Have any of you successfully navigated something like this? Or do I just accept that bedtime is going to take hours with screaming until my children are in elementary school? (Plz no!!!)

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