Anyone want a threenager????

As in, he is three with the attitude of a teenager!

He has been screeching for the last half an hour because daddy, heaven forbid, spoke to him. He yelled in a nasty voice "don't talk to me" so I asked him to apologise & speak in a nice voice, as you do. Nup didn't want to. He was then sent to sit in the library on his own until he can speak nicely. So what does he do? Screeeeeeam "MUMMY" in a high pitched screech over & over.

I am sooo not losing this battle of wills. When he calms down we wil discuss the matter & HE WILL APOLOGISE.

So yeah, anyone want him?!

Suuuuuure.... but only if you take my 4yo as a trade :D

I'll swap for a twonager ?

He was screeching high pitched this morning because he wanted Jatz crackers for breakfast. Really. Jatz crackers? Not likely my friend.

LOL, my neice just came for a visit and gave me a similar insight into life with a 3 year old.

I guess I can live in denial for a couple more years lol

LOL no thanks.. already have one.. and he's not 3 until March! LOL.

Oh we have these battles every day at the moment, and unfortunately with me being tired and sick the last couple of days, he is pushing my buttons badly. But yeah, you only have to look at him or what he's doing, "don't look at me" "don't look at it" "go mummy".

I feel a bit bad, with the "go away mummy", lately I've been saying" ok I'll go". I pick up my bag & keys, pick up Kayla and go out the front door. He FLIPS. i let him freak for a bit then go back in and ask him if he really wanted mummy to go. No, he didn't. So I asked him not to tell me to go away anymore. He still says it (habit I think.. just something he says when he's upset about something) and I ask him now, do you really want me to go? Shuts him up LOL. Trying to get him to realise what he's actually saying to people.

*sigh*.

Anyway.. i know exactly what you mean about the battle of wills. Sometimes I have to stop the vicious cycle or we'd fight all day. So I try and put him in a position where he'll do something good and I can praise him for a change! LOL.

It's a tough gig this toddler parenting! Love the "threenager" tho.. gonna steal that one :)

no thanks, but you get my sympathy - Darcy lost it last night because she wanted to go to work with her father.....
and I'm rarely her friend anymore...but hey in my line of work you get used to that lol.

I have one of them also. He really pushes my buttons, i can't believe he acts like a 15 year old with PMS. If anyone find out how to deal with them, please let me know.

Mine likes to say "don't believe it", and "go away" to people...

I'm currently hiding in the study from mine :redface: i can't believe i'm hiding from my child.

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i can't believe he acts like a 15 year old with pms.

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mine too!!

LOl nah thanks Sarah, I have one that is 9 months going on 14 today *sigh*

Got one here already thanks. Even if she has had a good time or gotten something she wants, she still finds some reason to whinge :rolleyes: She definately has an attitude!

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Got one here already thanks. Even if she has had a good time or gotten something she wants, she still finds some reason to whinge :rolleyes: She definately has an attitude!

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OMG.. this means mine won't get better as he gets older!!!!!! ARGHHHHHH!!!!!!

lol

I'll second Arimeh. DS wanted "gickie" (bickies) for breakfast. As in Yo-Yos or Arrowroots. Drives me bonkers.

You have my sympathy, empathy and all that. But I won't have him............ *sigh*

I would.. but I already have one and he doesn't like to share the title..
we went to a birthday party today and I followed him upstairs to make sure he didn't trash the place.. he screamed at me "Go away from me Mummy! I never! I never want you talking to me!" and then tried to push me down the stairs..

I felt horrible since he is usually good when he's not at home.

At home if we tell him not to do something and he doesn't like it he will tell me off and then storm off and slam his bedroom door.. and then he comes back later and gives me a commentary on what happened "you told me no, I did scream, I did walk down the hallway.. I did slam the door and cry, and you did not come for me!" lol

You can have my 15 year old as a trade if you want... I almost left him on the side of the highway earlier!

YES!!! I'll take him! Matilda and he can not be friends with each other and fight over every little thing and I will sit and laugh.... and then cry... and then laugh again!

I like teenagers and all their angst....

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As in, he is three with the attitude of a teenager!

He has been screeching for the last half an hour because daddy, heaven forbid, spoke to him. He yelled in a nasty voice "don't talk to me" so I asked him to apologise & speak in a nice voice, as you do. Nup didn't want to. He was then sent to sit in the library on his own until he can speak nicely. So what does he do? Screeeeeeam "MUMMY" in a high pitched screech over & over.

I am sooo not losing this battle of wills. When he calms down we wil discuss the matter & HE WILL APOLOGISE.

So yeah, anyone want him?!

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OMG! Replace son with daughter in this scenario and you have my DD almost word for word. I can empathise completely :hug:

yeh I think I will say noooooo I don't want another

:lol: at threenager.. Never heard that expression before. My 'threenager' has come good over the last couple weeks.. (fingers crossed, touch wood I did not just jinx myself)

No thanks hun. I have one of my own - just a month older than yours LOL! He is starting kindy tomorrow but I swear in some ways he's like a teenager about to start high school LOL.

Awww this thread is making me laugh and almost cry at the same time.. Laugh because I can't believe these things come out of their mouths and cry because I have an 18month old and obviously have all of this to look forward to :o

That sounds like Charlotte!
she is chucking a wobbly majorly these days - at least 3 times a day! Fully stomps her foot and throws anything she can reach onto the floor :( And she only 14 months old!! :(
So glad she cant talk...not looking forward to " you're a poo-poo head" lol

Good luck!

hehe Jacob calls us poo heads or boof heads..:lol:

After a lot of "no's" one day to all of Miss 3's ridiculous requests, she must have had enough. She went to her bedroom, picked up her toy phone and made a call asking for a new mummy and daddy to be sent around :rolleyes: Wonder how long it will be before she tried to pack a bag and just leave.

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After a lot of "no's" one day to all of Miss 3's ridiculous requests, she must have had enough. She went to her bedroom, picked up her toy phone and made a call asking for a new mummy and daddy to be sent around :rolleyes: Wonder how long it will be before she tried to pack a bag and just leave.

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oh Astrid :rofl: I've got tears streaming down my face!!

When I told my parents I was running away... I think I was 5 or 6 and my mum came and helped me pack my bag. I walked around the block and then tried to sneak back into my house and hid under a bed for 6 hours!!! I think I had to come out to go to the toilet once and got caught!

It is sooooooooooo good to know I am not the only one with a threenager!!! Dh put her to bed the other night (I so needed a night off from my 3 hourly routine of bed) and she yelled at him "GET OUT DADDY, GET OUUUUUUUUUUUUT..MUMMY COME IN LATER". Then she promptly fell asleep. WHAT THE. She is playing me. And she often talks to us in that manner....
She has the biggest attitude, but Im so glad to know we're not alone! xo

OMG I am so glad to hear these stories, I thought I was just going insane with DD1 but half these stories fit word for word and the other half only need a minor variation. She will throw tantrums at nothing, takes about 3 hrs EVERY night to go to bed, will totally ignore us if we tell her to do something she doesn't want to (or to stop doing something she wants to do). We have been beside ourselves with stress not knowing if it was medical (she has just been diagnosed with epilepsy) or if it was behavioural. Feel much better knowing that she is just a normal "threenager". Thanks.

I'll take a miss on the screechy threenager and take your library!! DP is still under the impression that he won that argument about if we build a house i want a library. Oh how wrong he is. Hee hee