My son at almost 2 has yet to sleep through the night consistanly for a week or more. I am lucky if he sleeps through the night for a few nights in a row. He has recently started waking up screaming, inconsoleable, and raging. Lasts about an hour. We don't know what to do or why he's doing this...someone please help. I can give more details later if anyone needs them. Thanks

Yes. I can help.
Those are night terrors. My son had them as well. They are heart breaking in a strange way, right? You want to calm them down, but you can't.... and you can't really wake them.
I've been there. First let me offer some sympathy. They are so awful.

Here's what I learned:
cooler temps help. Use lightweight pjs, even in the winter. Even switching to cotton feeties vs. fleece feeties will help. Try a white noise machine as well. These days you can get an alarm clock or radio w.white noise for $10, or use a fan.
A solid white night light also helps, as opposed to some of the diffused nightlights that have characters. Sometimes, character nightlights are red or blue or something. Make sure it's simple and white.

I've also read that if you can pinpoint the time that the night terrors occur - usually within 1-4 hours of falling asleep, you can wake your child to go to the bathroom, to break up their sound sleep. But i never did that. (i'm a mom - I'd never want to wake a sleeping child!!!)

If it gets worse, I'd check with your ped. But honestly, everything I read at the time said that boys ages 2-4 have a great deal of night mares, sometimes night terrors, as they adjust to their changing, growing bodies.

I read that in times of fear, girls make things pretty - thus the princess love - and boy fight the problem, which is why they gravitate towards knights, heroes, guns, and good guy-bad guy fights.

Good luck! And keep us posted on how he's doing!

My son does that as well but he's not even a year old yet. He will be in a few weeks but he has yet to sleep through the night and some nights he wakes up screaming as if someone is hurting him and I can't get him to open his eyes. It upsets me so bad some nights because it feels as if I'm a bad parent because I can't console my own child to make him know that everything is ok and I won't let anyone hurt him. Is that normal for my son to already be having night terrors???