Toddlers: a statement of the blindingly obvious

[PaulHollywoodsSexGut]

DD is 3 next month and we also have 14mo DS.

I’m pg with #3 but am luckily having a straightforward pregnancy.

I’m starting to feel like a terrible parent though as I’m just feeling really drained with my toddler. She very funny and sweet but we are experiencing the absolutely normal melts when something is not her way, I am starting to worry we haven’t been strict enough with her as she’s now stealing biscuits and gobbling them with defiance on the
stairs plus I’m just basically 1000% ignored any time she’s not in total compliance mode.

DS is teething, that’s draining too but I’m finding I’ve just got such a bulldog face and no chat with DD.

The weather is shit today and we’ve not managed the park, decorating the living room for Christmas and making mince pies with her was quite arduous and now she’s just screaming and screaming like a B-movie heroine at her brother because he looked at her Duplo.

How do others cope and am I normal for finding her oh so draining right now?

Yours,
Shitty McShitface

That sounds exactly, precisely, normal.

Move the biscuits to where she cant reach them.

Remember its christmas, as in most kids are a bit more excited than normal and draw a line under it.

I only have the one, who is 3.5 and she is driving me BONKERS so all credit to you. I have distracted her with Mary Poppins

Ps its nearly bed time? Silver lining n all that

Thank you @comeagainforbigfudge

I basically don’t see any of my friends anymore (“busy lives” yeah ) and their nippers used to be the yardstick by which I could deduce if mine were being batshit or normal.

I’ve not seen anyone I know well enough in weeks so I’ve totally lost touch with what’s normal and I’m really really feeling like I’m missing something: she’s soooooooo EXTRA EXTRA at the moment I’m brain dead by 6pm.

However - and I will just say this - I think she’s potentially crashed out first time upstairs. A rarity.