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How long is this going to last? Please give me some hope!
Miss J turns 2 this week. And we have hit the terrible 2's in a HUGE way. Attitude plus! Throwing herself around, kicking, screaming, hitting and throwing things when she doesn't get her own way, waking anywhere up to 6 times a night - and don't even get me started on the whole TT thing. I'm so tired. I KNOW this is all normal behaviour but seriously, I hope it doesn't go on too long. She spends more time on naughty chair than off it i think, not to mention all the toys i've taken away.
Geez!
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Hugs to you and your DH lol but i so know what your on about ... it is hideous at times.!
I have DS 2 2months and he can really put on a performance but luckily theres no biting or kicking yet as god help him he would get put in the time out area for a long long time lol
TT can i ask why now ? I didnt even start until my older son was nearly 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 yr old and then it worked!
What do you do at night when she chucks wobblies?
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Argh I'm hearing you. Since DD1 turned 2, omg she's horrible.. lol... soooo whingy, and she screams a lot now, and whinges more often, and hits her brother, pushes him, won't leave him alone - and yes - attitude plus!!! Arghhh... frustrating!!
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TT - she started it. She takes her nappy off when it's dry and wees everywhere and stands at the toilet door yelling wees at me. So I figured I'd just go with her lead.
Night time - She keeps coming into our room so I just take her back and put her into her own bed, she screams for about 10mins and comes in again. I just persist with this routine until she gives in and goes back to sleep. Problem is that she is ALWAYS up and ready to go for the day between 5.30am and 6am and because she's been up so much during the night shes exhausted. I don't know how else to get her to sleep longer. She has one day sleep of anywhere between 2 and 3 hours but thats it.
Any suggestions to change this are welcome
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DD1 still wakes up at night too - and we just give her some milk and then she goes back to bed quite happily. Before we thought of giving her the milk, she would be up for 4 hours, whinging and crying and nothing we did stopped her and made her go back to sleep like the milk does.
Maybe you could try that?
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See again i didnt move my oldest son out of his cot to big bed til he was 3 yrs but he was in a portable cot with a nice mattress etc etc so he couldnt get out.
If you dont want to place her back in a portable cot i would suggest a small gate for over her door entry from her room.... then if she wakes up she cant get out of the room .... and tell her that she is to sleep at night like mum and dad . If she chucks tantrums and she will (as our Ds does at 1am at times) go in tell him that you will come and tuck her back into bed when she is finished crying, if that fails leave her to sort it out. If the room is warm and she cant get out or hurt herself she will eventually fall asleep ! And you will know the different cry if she is seriously ill or needs a hug
TT : mmm tricky one .... put two nappies on ... i dont know but again its a little girl trying to get her own way ...
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Yeah, that ^See again i didnt move my oldest son out of his cot to big bed til he was 3 yrs but he was in a portable cot with a nice mattress etc etc so he couldnt get out.
If you dont want to place her back in a portable cot i would suggest a small gate for over her door entry from her room.... then if she wakes up she cant get out of the room .... and tell her that she is to sleep at night like mum and dad . If she chucks tantrums and she will (as our Ds does at 1am at times) go in tell him that you will come and tuck her back into bed when she is finished crying, if that fails leave her to sort it out. If the room is warm and she cant get out or hurt herself she will eventually fall asleep ! And you will know the different cry if she is seriously ill or needs a hug
TT : mmm tricky one .... put two nappies on ... i dont know but again its a little girl trying to get her own way ...
Nappy on backwards? or potty outside toilet door?
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I hope you find a solution soon
can you bring her into bed with you, or put a mattress on the floor of her room? 2 is a big separation anxiety time and it sounds like she needs you.
Wrt bedtime I don't think your dd is manipulating you, just expressing a need, and the sooner you address the need, the sooner it should pass.
As for the other tantrums, I think it's pretty normal. I encourage dd to take deep breaths which works well for us, but she's just shy of 2.
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