DD is 3.5 and I think may be a teenager already. She's always been very bright, quick and quite stubborn but we were lucky in that she never really suffered the terrible twos. But boy are we paying now.
She won't listen normal I'm guessing, doesn't really respond to offers of treats or tellings off. Star charts/rewards/etc work great for a month or so and then she literally doesn't care (even when we've tried removing stars for bad behaviour - she now doesn't give a flying @£%£ about it). We've tried everything we can think of within reason and like I say, she will work with us for about a month and then reverts back. If she's really playing up she widdles everywhere on purpose (definitely on purpose, she find's it hilarious).
We've been putting it down to over tiredness a lot. She needs a daily nap, but doesn't always take one. If she had a consistent 40 mins I reckon a lot of this wouldn't be as bad. Nursery (2 days a week) have been great in encouraging this but obviously can't force her, MIL just won't enforce it no matter how tired DD is and we're having our own battle there. She acted up so much at nursery and when she's come home I've put her to bed early and she's gone so tiredness obviously does play some factor (despite her having napped today).
This is all fairly normal right? It's going to get better isn't it?
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DD is just being 3 right? And we've just got to ride it out haven't we?
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Eatriskier · 16/06/2014 18:30
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