DD is 21 months old and is a very happy girl and also very headstrong and determined.

I like these character traits BUT it is making taking her out a bit tricky.

A little while ago I wrote about the massive tantrum she chucked after we took her off the swing. The same thing happened the next time we went and I tried very hard to give her lots of warning that she'd be getting off soon.

We took her swimming today and the same thing happened. Cried blue murder when she got out (even though the pool was that cold she'd been shivering for the entire 30 mins we'd been in there). She was in such a state that I couldn't get her wet swimmers off and her dry clothes on. It literally took her 15 minutes to calm down enough for us to be able to dress her. Just kept screaming and pointing at the other kids in the pool, shouting "more, more".

Now the thing is, DP often works on weekends but I would really like to be able to take her to places on my own. But it takes two of us to get her in the stroller and/or dressed she protests that much. In addition, I have a dodgy back and it is really hard for me to struggle with a toddler who lies down on the floor kicking me!

The funniest thing was, after all the commotion after swimming, I asked her, "did you like going swimming DD?" and she said "nahhhhhhhhhhhh".

So what should we do?