To by a really really big bottle of gin. Then drink the gin. Then put dd in the bottle of gin and seal the lid?

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Till either

She is 21

Or

She puts her trousers on and stops screaming at the injustice of said trousers having to go on?

Apols to pfb owners of under 3's, this is not a thread that will please you

May Zombie be of assistance?

Do you have gin?

Or toddler mind control ray guns?

Or are you willing to let a small pink weasel weep gently upon your shoulder?

remember these skills, you'll need them when dealing with the Kevin the Teenager stage .

In my highly scientific not study of 4 DSs, small children are psychopaths that, if you are lucky, will turn in to sentient human being just before their 5th birthday .
2 more years to go....

YABU to drink the contents of the bottle first. You should put her straight in. Flavoured gins are all the rage now, dontcha know??

Gin? Yes. Several bottles of Bombay Sapphire Export.

Toddler mind control ray guns? No, sorry.

Small pink weasels may weep on Zombie's shoulder anytime they need to.

DD is 3.5. I dressed her like a freakin boy from the minute she was born, not one little tiny bit of pink. six months after starting nursery she will not wear trousers (that's why she was screaming in particular this morning) she wants to wear 'princess dresses'. She will not wear non-pink pyjamas. She will only wear Disney Princess pull ups. She calls herself 'Princess Mog'. She inists on dressing up her younger brother as a fairy and refuses to wear the fairy dress I bought her BECAUSE IT IS NOT PINK.

And to think that all we worried about when she was two was that she didn't talk. Ah, halcyon days of non-verbal children, now they can BOTH scream MUMMY MUMMY CUDDLE CAKE OUTSIDE SEESAW TRAMPOLINE NO YES BATH BED at the tops of their voices. And you know what - if you have a two year old as well as a three year old (I'm stupid) the two year old has his terrible twos at the same time as the three year old. FML.

At least I'm at work.

MtoM, fear not. My DD2 drove me to panicky despair the day she announced she 'didn't want boys' toys' and insisted on generalised pinkery. She is now nine, lives in combat trousers, and lectures me on Fair Trade and stereotyping. I feel like a lefty feminist Dr Frankenstein, but it's much better than having a three year old princess.

Three year olds want more independence they can handle, 10y are the same.

Same trick works with both if you can give them independence, choice and a feeling of being in control do, if there's a job to be done Ear Plugs.

hmm trousers are more difficult... the sitting on them pinning their arms to the side technique works as long as you don't have a biter. it is not pleasant to be bitten on the bum. it is best reserved for top half dressing. taking child down to the car half dressed worked... though it as summer. if you are not going out, letting child play until theirr legs are cold enough to want trouserrs also works.

Thank god. I thought the princess thing was cute for about a minute (and was also quite pleased because it is such a 'normal' thing for a not very normal little girl to do) but I'm done with pink now. I will keep pushing the grunge.

The trousers went on. I used her scooter as a negotiable in the end.

The trousers are no longer and issue. She is now is now in high dudgeon because she wants to go to bingo night, despite it being past her bed time and her inability to count beyond 5 solo, and no one else is going.