When do they start taking you seriously?

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Never.

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I'm still waiting too. But it is very different for DD#1, she's a strange one. She'll argue with me when I'm in 100% agreeance with her, I'm just not using the same words she's using, so we wind up arguing with her that arguing with someone when they AGREE with you is a bad idea. Argh!

DD#2 is your stock standard toddler though. She's just going into bossy phase.

DD#2, to the cat: "You need to say meow now".
DD#2, when I ask her nicely to get a plate: "No, YOU go get me a plate"
DD#2 when told to vacate her sister's room: "No, is not DD#1's room. Is DD#2's room."

And of course she knows where everything is in this house and what it does, so if we so dare to tell her not to start peeling and cutting the potatoes after I said we're having mash for tea, whoa ... there's hell to pay. Because SHE is making us mashed potato tonight. SHE got out the chopping board, peeler, knife, potatoes, SHE is damn well going to cut them up.