Does anyone else toddler just whinges ALL day?! I cannot cope.

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I don't know I think I've just been unlucky. I've got 3 kids. 2 out of the 2 were really really hard babies / toddlers. My youngest is 2 and is just whiney and crying all the time. I leave the room and she'll instantly start crying. I've come back in straight away but no, it's too late now. She's started so wont stop till 5mins later. Ten minutes later she's dropped something, cry, shes playing with her toys, cry, I move around in the same room, cry, she asks for water, cry, she asks for food, cry.

It's just getting me so so depressed. I don't even enjoy being with her and dread the day when I wake up as I know she'll start. In fact she is my alarm clock. She cries as soon as she wakes. She cries when I'm putting her to bed. She's always fucking crying. It's mentally draining me and I regret having her.

What is she like when you're out the house? Mine gets whingy when she's bored but a good run around outside usually sorts her out.

She's hit and miss outside. Sometimes she can be whiny outside too especially when she was younger. I used to be so anxious going out as I would be waiting for her to start crying.

The worst part of this is that with other people she's is completely well behaved like gp house or dsis

My youngest was very much like this from 16 months- till around 2 years and 3 months. He’s now over 2 1/2 and he’s so much more settled.

It didn’t matter what we did, he would cry and throw a tantrum all the time, baby groups, he’d scream and cry, out walking he’d cry to be picked up and carried, carrying him he’d cry, going out for lunch he’d cry, at home he’d cry, I was still walking the floor with him around my kitchen as if I put him down he’d cry. He wasn’t ill or ‘under the weather’ either.

I tried everything, going out every day, keeping him amused with lots of different things, messy play, arts and crafts, stories, quiet/wind down time, some of it worked for a short while, some didn’t. I also felt like you, I dreaded waking up in the morning as it was just another relentless day with us both trying to get through it the best we could. The only thing that changed it for us was time, he is so much more happy now he’s become a bit more independent, he will play with toys, look at his books, and I actually enjoy spending time with him now.

I think it may be a case of just having to ride it out. But I do completely empathise, it does chip away at your soul.

Time to go to nursery if posible. Her frustration levels are very low. Maybe she gets your attention that way? Most be so hard to listen to her all day. I'll be going to playgroups so she can see how other children cope with disappointment.

Perhaps she is picking up on the fact you regret having her the moment you wake up you seem to be annoyed she wakes up crying and seem to be annoyed when she is anxious and tired too maybe you need to look at how you are with her. Maybe you need to spend time playing with her happily and not being stressed as soon as she wakes. Maybe you need some help and a break. She needs lots of love and patience perhaps she would benefit from spending time with other children if she is fine with everyone else could it be your stress she is picking up on? I'm sorry if this sounds mean. Does she get plenty of fresh air and exercise or are you indoors most of the time? Maybe she would like music and dancing or singing with you it usually cheers everyone and makes people laugh. Do you read her stories and get down and play with her with lots of cuddles? Maybe you should seek professional help if you are feeling like this. Toddlers whinge n whine that's how they are sometimes but if it is constant a health visitor should be able to help her and you

Dd is like this. She won’t just ask for something, she’ll whinge and moan and whine. It’s drives me absolutely potty, and no matter how many time I say “I’m not talking to you until you speak properly” she continues doing it.

Dd is at nursery 3 full days a week, and does it there as well! So it doesn’t always help.

We play together, read books, go out for dinner once a week to her favourite pizza joint, go for walks, talk loads, eat our meals at home together at the table. But she still frigging whinges all the time!

Mine's like this. She's 2.8. She's quite an emotional child. Everything is either totally hilarious or it's whingeing, crying and tantrums over absolutely nothing.

You have my sympathies. It is relentless and it sometimes feels like it doesn't matter what you do, they're going to be miserable anyway.

She goes to nursery 3 days a week and until recently was the total opposite there. Now she's started pushing boundaries and I regularly pick her up to be told "we've seen a different side to X today" or "she's been quite emotional today".

It's totally knackering if I'm honest and some days I'm counting down the minutes until bedtime just so the whingeing will stop.

Hi! Sounds exactly like mine now, been happening for over 4 months. Whinging tantruming over 15 times a day. I’m so drained from this. How’s your little one doing now? Any light at the end of the tunnel? Xx