To ask you the worst things your toddler has done?

[farmertom]

I'm not sure how light hearted this is, hopefully a bit. Looking to feel a bit better about mine!
Just had a new baby and my gorgeous, gentle, well behaved little toddler (2.4 months) has turned into a moaning and hitting, doing the opposite of whatever is asked and refusing to get dressed/nappy change/eat little monster.
I feel absolutely awful! I feel so guilty like I've ruined his life with all this upheaval and especially the hitting makes me feel so bad.

Please tell me this is normal and that he'll be ok 😢😢😢😢

Ok turned out not too be light hearted...sorry 😬
I guess I am still feeling very emotional

I think what you are experiencing is very normal when a new baby arrives. Your eldest will settle and will soon forget life before he had a sibling.

My youngest at 16 months:
Picks up a glass bowl, ran away when he caught my husband's eye. Launches glass bowl which smashes into a million pieces.
Whilst he was put in the next room while my husband cleaned up, he picks up plant in a pot and smashes that on the floor too.

This child has also drawn on all walls, broken numerous things, empties cupboards. Every day! So unlike my eldest child.

Have you had a major Sudocrem incident yet?
Has anyone asked if he's OK while he lies on the pavement and screams?
Has anyone started their day with a bite mark?

Sibling rivalry is entirely normal. It sort of passes but ours still have a competitive edge.
What did the first do when I had the second? In fairness, we moved at the same time (with a three day old). She gave up much that was familiar as well as a new creature appearing.
She waited until I went to answer the door. I heard a scream and returned to find a week old baby safely on the floor but with a toddler sized bite mark etched deeply into his forehead and a crying toddler who said a cat had done it. We didn’t have a cat.
She also sat chatting to me in the kitchen with him sleeping in his car seat whilst I put shopping away. I noticed the car seat moving slowly towards the edge of the table, one toddler nudge at a time. She said she was rocking him.
Patience, understanding that their world has started doing somersaults and clear expectations of kindness coupled with lots of cuddles and reassuring activities.
It gets better.

That definitely isn’t the worst mine ever did though.

Oh yes the drawing on walls/hands/face/anything.
My DC1 has SEN but it's my DC2 that's the wall drawer.

Do you know I think that's normal at that age anyway. DS doesn't have a sibling and went through that phase when he was 2. He's 3.5 now and 90% of the time an absolute dream.

Somehow got hold of a sharpie and scribbled all over a wall, a bed sheet and her legs when we thought she was napping. We not long have sharpies in the house, my husband told me the other day he had a nightmare where he found one!

My 2.5yo is going through the same stage, and she's the youngest. It's pretty much a normal development stage, plus there may be a bit of natural attention seeking as well. It will pass, give options, distract where possible. It can help buying them a doll with some clothes & a nappy that they get to boss around.

I have little teeth marks in my wooden venitian blinds thanks to DD! No wall art though thank goodness.

When we moved house my then-4yo drew on his sister's newly decorated bedroom wall, signed it, and then tried to blame it on his older brother. Why do they always draw on shit when they're unsettled!?

Same DS went through a stage when he was 2-3yo it was a long phase of posting stuff out through the letterbox onto the front doorstep. It started off with small toys and then one day he posted my keys out. We were about to go out and I couldn't find them anywhere. DS was even helping me look for them, the sly little toad, and then finally told me they'd "gone doorstep, mammy". Had a look through the living room window and there they were. Front door locked, back door locked, and the only bit of the living room windows that opened were the small square ones at the top. I did consider shoving DS through one of them and lowering him to the ground but couldn't trust him not to either run away or sit on the doorstep playing with the keys so I had to sit in the window and try get the attention of one of the neighbours. The postie came along not long after and laughingly posted them back through the door after I explained through the window what had happened. Next morning, DS did it again.

Oldest DS and oldest DD when they were 5yo and 3yo were playing upstairs. I'm not sure when it all went quiet but by the time I noticed it was silent they had each coloured the others entire face in with felt tips. DD had gone one step further and coloured chunks of her hair. They'd also coloured in their finger nails and toe nails. There was pen all over the hallways mirror too from their first attempt where they'd mistakenly coloured in their reflections instead of their faces. Took ages to wash off and DS had pink eyebrows for around a week.

Recently? Started a fire. Chased his brother around the house with a hammer. Permanent marker on the curtains.

I was nearly two when my parents bought home my sister

I used to throw loud screamy tantrums under her bassinet- but only when she was sleeping in it

Bear the felt tip story is brilliant. Not for you at the time, I’m sure, but you tell it well

Dd1, when she was about 2, but the leg of an older lady we were queuing next to in the supermarket. I was mortified! She did not have form for biting and seemed surprised at the fuss that was made. The lady did not take it well.

My 2 year old is going through the same thing, it is what is referred to as the terrible 2's. They start to push their boundaries at this age it is part of their learning curve.
My 2 year old bit his sister so hard it left a mark. When my DD was 2 she emptied a whole bottle of lotion all over her bedroom and toys, I ended up having a bath that night with a giant cuddly toy great Dane.

Mine didn't have a new sibling as an excuse but he was a biter. I was so relieved when that phase was over.

Other main highlight was the week he decided to pee on the wall in his bedroom if he needed the loo in the night.

Ours has a real passion for throwing things, and is a fantastic shot. She threw a toy at our nearly new lovely large TV. Absolutely wrecked it.

Dd2 drew a beautiful foot heigh S (the first letter of her name) on the living room wall in dp's permanent markers he uses for work (which obviously should not have been left out) at about the same age. It is still there now. I am tempted to put a frame around it and make it a feature!

Oh dear @Annoyedxxx123 I think you win!

@Annoyedxx123 that should have been!

I have photographs if them in their "make up", going to get them blown up to A1 size and displayed at their 18th birthday parties. I've also promised that DH and I will be doing a bump and grind slow-dance to Mr Boombastic, as soon as they hear the opening strains of "Mr. Lover Lover, Mmm, Mr. Lover lover..." they will know that their payback has arrived for all the times they have embarrassed us.

Just renovated and my three year old scribbled all over the walls of his new room with a black light detective pen that he had taken from an older brother. I didn't notice at first but then he happily turned the lights off and showed me. He was very proud but exclaimed that someone else must have done it. The whole room will have to be repainted as even though it's clear it's visible and looks like dirt or dust scuffs all over the wall.

He's done this before so we got rid of all the pens and markers but forgot to go through birthday gift bags

Our youngest has been the worst in terms of destruction but it's just a phase which seems to peak between 2-3.

I have a fab photo of DSD and her dad aged a little before two following a sudacreme incident. I’m pretty sure she was just trying to be a good egg and change her own nappy after a nap and things just got out of hand. I don’t know who looks more fed up in the photo - her or her dad.
Being the good mumsnet SM that i am I left the parenting to her dad which obviously included the cleaning up.

DS1 started biting around DS2's birth. It didn't help that late pregnancy and post-birth recovery had me below normal functional levels for a good 6 months.

He has been known to bite since... he did fake a bite when he was about 6 and tried to blame DS2 for biting his arm... DS2's modus operendi never included biting, also DS2 had not been visited by the tooth fair in recent times

At 2, DS2 discovered the great the joy of throwing. First time, all the balls went over the fence within 1 minute. Next weekend, DS1's favourite cuddly spent the night in next-door's garden. The neighbours were away so we ended up lifting the fence panels to rescue it.

DS2 was also a talented mountaineer. At 2, he scaled to the top of the soft play frame... via the outside of the netting designed to keep children in. This is the child who took his first steps at the swimming pool in order to throw himself in