To ask about your threenagers?

[Rockchick1984]

DS turned 3 in March. He can be the sweetest, most loving little boy at times but then sometimes it's like a switch flips and he becomes a monster

Please share your nightmare three year old stories to make me feel like I'm not the only one to go through this, and I'm not raising a future hooligan?

You are definitely not the only one! Dd1 has turned into a complete diva since she turned 3 - strops, flouncing and the attitude!! We missed the terrible twos so were taken completely unawares!! She does still have moments of loviness though!

Mine weren't too bad at three, but turned into little monsters the minute they turned four! They've grown out of it though, if that's any consolation.

Youngest isn't even two yet and is a screaming ball of rage at the best of times so I've no idea what the future might bring

we're currently suffering hardcore terrible twos so kind of hope we might skip the threenage stage (yeah right!)

My DD is three next month and I CANNOT believe the change in her over the past few weeks! The rage in her when she's trying to do something and gets it wrong or it doesn't happen straight away she'll roar like a monster and start shaking her fists in rage, constantly looking for food and will shout demands like "CHEESE!!!" in a really aggressive tone if I try to tell her later etc. Repeats herself fifty million times, "scooter scooter scooter, we bring scooter to the shop? Scooter scooter scooter", very aggressively shouts NO!!! if I ask her to do something etc which can be mortifying in shops etc. This all doesn't sound like such a big deal but we used to be the best of pals, just having a great time all the time but now every day is a battle!!

We never had terrible twos, I smugly thought it was my parenting that had stopped it

My dd is 4 next month. The last 12 months her temper has become fierce, I didn't think it could be worse after the two's but she proved me wrong.

Highlights include a complete meltdown on a flight to Spain, yelling at me in the middle of a quiet bookstore, a meltdown in the toilets of a local supermarket that she dramatically stopped because she had spotted my sanpro and decided to tell everyone I was wearing a nappy.

As we get closer to 4, I've noticed she now outwits me in conversation (mum I need peace and quiet, shush), but the number of tantrums is decreasing dramatically.

DS has had proper tantrums as long as I can remember (he was an angry refluxy baby).

He was 3 in March and has moved on from the standard 'I don't want to/it' and 'I can't doooo it' tantrums to actual ear-piercing screaming.

You know the "my child is crying because..." Memes? He could fill pages of those!

Glad it's not just us though!