Delphmoon - Welcome back and congrats on the birth of Lily. Gorgeous name

Ocean Princess - thanks for the hugs, goodness knows i could use them right now... hope your DD gets better soon, behaviour and health wise

Lyla's slowly getting better (touch wood) its been 2 days since her last tantrum which was a WHOPPER! Went for over 2 hours. When it started i put her in timeout.
She came straight out and smacked me with a hard toy.
Put her back in and told her she was hurting me and she needs to stay here till she can be a nice girl.
She started headbutting and kicking the wall, floor anything really then came back out yelling at me, no words just yelling.
Asked her to use her words and tell mummy what was wrong which just got more yelling
She was wearing a tracksuit so got really hot her hair was wet with sweat, tried to give her a drink and take at least the jumper off. Got smacked, kicked and bitten so let her go, she ran into my room and hid under the doona (great get even hotter ) tried talking to her.
Offered her all her favourite things if she'd calm down and come out (blue bath, bubble bath, drawing on the ground outside with chalk, make a cake, help me vacuum) nothing worked...
by now she had bitten herself, drew blood once and had a huge bruise for the other... was at my wits end and remembered something someone on here said someone did (said they didn't reccomend it but a friend or someone had done it) so i did that...
I grabbed her facing away from me so she couldn't bite and Lyla and i had a cold shower!
Within seconds she transformed back into my beautiful girl and wanted a cuddle and hasn't tantrumed since.
I'm not proud of what i did but i didn't know what else to do... i really hope that this is the end of the daily tantrums. i know she'll tantrum again, she's a toddler they do sometimes, i just want her to be happy.
Sorry that turned into a me post :/

to everyone else. Hope you're all doing well xx