Please can anyone give me some constructive advise on how to handle this. We have a 2.2year old DD who is trying to exert her authority in more ways than one and I am desperately trying to avoid being a shouty mum.
Meal times are a major battle ground. She has always been a faddy eater (one minute she'll eat loads of home cooked food, next minute she won't touch it and will only eat sachet type food), and we have to really encourage her with every mouthful at the moment. She is going through a phase of taking one spoonful and holding it in her mouth which she can take up to 10 minutes to swallow or she spits it back out - even with a meal which has been a favourite up to now. Meals can take forever. We all sit at the dinner table together in the hope that seeing us eat, would help her to eat but nothing seems to work. If you get cross with her she just laughs at you, if you give her the plate or the spoon to feed herself she just launches it accross the kitchen. We don't know what else to try with her - finger foods, meals, puddings all get thrown on the floor. We encourage her by cheering when she feeds herself or takes a spoonful, we've tried smaller portions so the meal doesn't look so daunting.
Also, we had a miserable day out the other week where I took her out for the day with a relative to a shopping centre. She screamed and screeched her way around for nearly two hours so we gave up and came home (I tried giving her a drink, food, milk but she just carried on). I spoke to her sternly to tell her off (didn't raise my voice, just tried to let her know I was unimpressed with her behavoir and I wanted it to stop), and she just laughed in my face continually. How do you discipline them ( for want of a better word) when you are out in public?
Suggestions welcome because I am at breaking point with this. Obviously this is a small insight into our daily battles but they are the ones that are sticking in my mind at the moment. No doesn't seem to be a word she wants to understand.
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incontinentiabucket · 01/07/2013 13:53
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