Remembering my childhood. Crying myself to sleep. If I didn't eat dinner, it was served up for breakfast and lunch the next day. "Because I said so." Do this. Don't do that. "You let me down, I'm so disappointed" that a small child (under the age of 7) couldn't behave as an adult, or mentioned she was thirsty, or didn't want to stop playing.
Every time I'm ready to give up, I think of how I felt back then. And know I couldn't do that to my
DS.
BTW, those are my son's sleep patterns when he gets a new tooth. I'm REALLY over it but thankfully his last tooth is now through so sleeping should be back to 0-1 wake-up a night by the end of the week: we had 2 last night, but he's used to being up all night now. When you realise there's a physical reason for the behaviour it's great; that really, really helps me!
DS slept through for the first time age 15-16m-ish, so your lad has beaten mine! Oh, aside from the one week old time, but he was tube-fed all through the night so that doesn't really count.