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I have a 2 year old, but I'm 38 and had a lot of experience with kids before hand from fosters and shit so I've got some experience under my belt.
>the sleep
I can tell you didn't sleep train.. our daughter (2) has gone to bed without fuss or drama at 730 since she was 6 months and sleeps 12 hours. Sometimes she stays up and plays for a bit on her own. We let her. She just goes to sleep eventually, no need to fight.

Teach your kid some damn independence.

>refusing to eat
Probably the next biggest mistake parents make. Your child will not starve. If they're not eating, they're not hungry. You don't have to force them. Regulate their snacks, make sure they're eating healthy, if they're not eating any meals ever, less snacks during the day.. but they can totally self regulate on this front.
Daughter has been 50th percentile for weight her entire life. Some days she eats like a teenager, some days she eats like 2 peanuts. She's good.

Look man I know you're having a rough time with this, but like 90% of the time the parents are literally making their own lives more difficult, and so much of the time it's the mistake that you have to hang over them constantly and make sure they're doing everything right.

They're little learning machines. You can teach independence, and you can trust their bodies. But they only learn as much as they *must*. Put her in your bed every night, she won't learn to sleep on her own. Force food down her throat she won't learn to eat when she needs to.

And the bed thing especially, like it's gonna be hard. She's gonna fight you, she's gonna cry. She's gonna make it hard, but she can learn, and if you don't teach her now you're putting the problem off til later and it just gets worse and worse and worse.

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