Pie is 22 months, will be 2 at the end of next month.

We have tried making a game of putting things away & sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't... Really it's just the 'no' thing in general though, like Just Me said, I don't want to make it into a power struggle. It's very hard to reason with her at the moment though, a lot of things she understands but she is still a toddler!

Getting dressed - I do offer choices but that's not working, she will pick one but when I go to put it on, she yells & kicks. So we go to the other option & get the same thing. It's like making the choice is just a way of delaying (for her) - it's all good until it's time to do it. At the moment we are at the stage where we try to do it nicely but when that fails I just have to struggle & fight to get her dressed, especially on a work morning, and I hate it.

She's pretty stubborn though and I think it's just going to be a part of who she is... we will just have to find a way of dealing with it

BAL - you've been around here enough, I'm suuuure you've seen her chuck a wobbly! Maybe I will wait until you come over to get her dressed next time, she'll probably be a little angel