Oh ladies... thank you ALL for your replies! I have gained new insights indeed.
Lane- I think my son fits with you. It seems that EVERYTHING bothers him. I don't know if you saw my last post, but his latest sleep study showed ZERO REM sleep. Just now, as I'm typing this and he is in between my husband and I, he drifted back to sleep and then sat straight up, looked around and plopped back down as if to 'check things out'.
My youngest son and daughter share a room and she sings to him. When she's not in the room and he is (say if she's ill and I'm taking care of her in the other room) I have to rock him to sleep, put him in the crib (that has a tent over it because he likes to climb and jump off of REALLY HIGH things) then fluff her blankets in a way that makes it look like she's laying in bed from his point of view.
My daughter is starting to not want to touch anyone or show any affection at all to anyone. She sleeps like a ROCK and is VERY hard to wake and takes about 40 minutes sometimes longer to fully wake up even from a nap and its like she can't hear what I'm saying to her EVER and her hearing is fine. She refused to eat for 4 days simply because I didn't have what she wanted. I know they say when they are hungry enough they will eat anything but not my daughter. There are other things, but these stick out to me the most at the moment. I'm just about to go crazy most days. Btwn all three of them being the ages they are, and yes, some of it is just their ages, but a lot isn't. Beth throws these tantrums for hours at a time too and she doesn't let things go either. Like today, I was unloading frozen foods from the store and I had unbuckled her car seat and taken her babies and put them on the floor board which she didn't like then, I picked them up and took them to the porch since she was fascinated by the ants on a sucker and she FLIPPED and threw an hour and 45 minute tantrum simply because she wanted to carry them to the porch.
Enough ranting, I'm sorry. Just frustrated.
Lynn,
We have had to stay in our eldest sons room until he fell asleep up until just recently, but he has started to digress once again. He just can't seem to be alone, ever. He always wants 'company' and that would be fine if I didn't have two other kids and a house to take care of. I feel badly for making him stay in his room at times because it just seems he is literally scared of the walls and I simply don't know what to do.

Thanks again and blessings to you all!

Sarah

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Until that day...