How can I help my adult son cope better with chaotic meal and bedtimes?

He’s tired and irritable and on a recent holiday I had to absent myself from the table after he exploded with rage at his children. Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader

I am writing after returning from a week’s holiday with my son, his partner and their two children, who are both under five.

I have been concerned for several years that their management of their children’s sleep and meals is chaotic, causing all four of them a great deal of distress. Having recently seen it under the same roof, I am at my wit’s end to know how to help them or how best to cope myself. I know holidays are stressful but their daily routines were already very fragile.

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