I'm doing a parenting course ATM and one of the things they said is that the "odd" years are generally the tough ones and the "even" years are the ones where they want to be helpful and are more pleasant.
Or was it the other way round?
Sorry not really much help to you...
We have massive bedtime issues here too. You're not alone.
I refuse to let the food thing get to me. It used to. A lot. But, I figure, no child will starve themselves if there is food available. I refuse, absolutely refuse, to make separate meals, so if she doesn't eat dinner, she doesn't eat it. She has to go to her room and sit quietly though if she doesn't. It has gotten to the point where as soon as we say dinner is ready, she will sometimes go straight to her room without even looking at dinner. I offer no other food choices for the night. At least 50% of the time she goes without dinner. She is still growing and appears healthy though.
If only I could now get into this headspace about potty training.
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My three and a half year old is an angel . . . Hang on I dont think those words go together!! Lol
dd, ripped open 3 supposed chrissy presents because I was cleaning the sparwe bed room.
one which she already has and she promised to clean up if she can open these pots and pans coz pink is her fav colour in the world.
I made her promise to pack it up if I let her open it after an hrs worth of tears and ascreaming.
pots and pans still on the floor.
food? Is chocolate considered food?
mum I want something . . . Man those words are scary coz it usually means she wants to pull out another humgus mess.
oh and sleeping arrangement? I think she will be cosleeping with us until 21 also.
Must be terrible threes right? What else can it be? Hehhe huge hugs hun
DD1 and food , i had fail safe meals but even those seem to be out the window at the moment.
If she was allowed to live on Feta, Fruit and Teddy Bears biscuits she would, she even has days where she wont touch nuggets or her favorite spaghetti.
The TTing all i can say is in her own time, DD1 started TTing in summer last year just after her 2nd b'day, of her own accord and she has only just now been fully TT'd.
I put a potty in the lounge, allow as much nappy off time as she wants and made a potty chart.
Outside of that it's all been at her discretion.
Going to bed, DD wont have day sleeps anymore and hasn't for months but there are nights she will be up til 9:30+ just relaxing watching TV with her dad and cracking it when we go to put her to bed, other nights you could say go to bed and she would just go in and put herself down.
I guess all we can do is remember "this too shall pass"but that doesn't mean it's not frustrating.. i get attitude already and she's driving me BONKERS.
I'd like to know how to get through the same things! DS is only 15 days younger and he's been doing the same things - toilet raining is a no go, he will pull his nappy off when outside though and happily runs around with nothing on his bottom half! Bedtime is usually ok, but only if he gets to run around outside all day.
Food - he'll eat fruit, biscuits, sausages, pancakes, jam or vegemite sandwiches and wheatbix. I have started getting him to eat pureed veggies for lunch now though - he won't touch whole ones and definitely won't eat them with dinner. Lunch time is the ONLY time I have been able to get him to eat the pureed ones. I give him a container of them with a spoon and send him outside with it he'll usually eat some of it.
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, i had fail safe meals but even those seem to be out the window at the moment.
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