I'm wrong of course, she is endearing sometimes, but it is getting increasingly difficult to remember those times.
She is 2.3 and ever since she has been tiny she has been permanently cross and discontented. Now if she is in the house she either wants me to hold her the whole time so she can stroke my hair (I have other children so this isn't possible), or she is busy drawing on things, tearing things, throwing things, or hitting her siblings. If I take her to the playground or a toddler group she hits/pushes/bites other children, if I take her to the shops she screams incessantly, she hates the pushchair, the carseat, the highchair (if I am anywhere near her in the kitchen she wants to sit on my knee to eat). I don't think it's a question of discipline - she knows it's wrong to hit etc, and always gives me a challenging look when she does something naughty. I know all about praising good behaviour, ignoring bad, and the naughty step etc etc. I'm more inclined to think that it is a combination of her wanting to be with me the whole time and being a malcontent by nature.
I have just had to leave church with her. Normally there is a creche there and she is ok there (as long as I stay with her), today there wasn't a creche and she just started screaming and trying to run around. I had to leave as there were too many people tutting.
I'm just ranting on here I know there is nothing that can be done (but tips are welcome ) - she was a miserable baby, a miserable toddler, I dread to think what she will be like as a teenager. In the meantime I switch from feeling bad that she is so unhappy about everything to resentful that she stops us doing so much and takes so much of my attention from my other children.
(I'm a semi-regular poster btw but changed my name because I've been outed in real life).
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dd3 (2yo)is so difficult and miserable and cross, i am starting to feel that there is nothing endearing about her
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ScreamingMimi · 08/04/2007 11:37
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