Is anyone else’s toddler being REALLY hard work at the moment?

[CobaltRose96]

Hi all. This is just a vent/moan really!

DD is 12 months and normally very happy and ‘easy’. Smiley, playful, rarely cries ect. But over the past few days (pretty much since the lockdown really) she’s become really, really hard work.

She whines/moans/whinges almost constantly. She wants me to carry her everywhere and screams the second she’s put down. She’s happy and playing for maybe five minutes at a time before the whinging starts again.

She doesn’t have a temperature, nappies fine, still eating and drinking well ect so I don’t think she’s ill. I did suspect teeth but anbesol and Calpol do nothing to improve her mood. Maybe she’s picking up on my stress? I have other things I’m worried about (I’ve got loads of uni work to do and don’t know where to start, and my partner is a key worker so still having to work which worries me to no end), so maybe that’s affecting her?

I don’t know. Whatever it is though, it’s making me feel like an awful mum

My 4 year old is a nut job right now. Awful tantrums and really low resilience. But he's the same around Christmas I think he's feeding off my stress. I've had the news on a few times and he's hearing new words and I'm probably not as smiley and carefree as I usually am. I'm also doing a lot more housework with him there where I'd usually do it when he's at nursery. So as much as I'm trying to keep it normal he'll pick up on it.

@Namelessinseattle, good to know it’s not just my kid being bonkers!

Yes, my 2.5-year-old is being an absolute fucking devil child right now. Constant tantrums and talking at me all day when I’m trying to work. Not her fault, she’s just being a toddler but it’s incredibly draining to be around every single day. I’m also 30 weeks pregnant which makes things all the more interesting 🙄 she’s a kid that really needs nursery!!

19 month old is making me want to shut my head in a revolving door! Constant whinging crying, shouting and then the 'mummy' seventy billion times in a row. I want to go back to work 😭😭

I'm right there with you.
DS (3) is usually a handful and is very high energy but he's finding this particularly challenging at the moment and is coming out with some serious attitude that's really unlike him.
DD is only 9 months but is usually a dream and is suddenly really clingy and unhappy a lot of the time.
I think they're both picking up on the fact that I'm stressed and anxious and the major change in routine, plus I'm definitely not as smiley and happy as usual.
It must be a really hard thing for them to process when they're very little.

Yep 12 month old here too, she is either in the best possible or worse possible mood and it changes instantly !
I think they can feel the tension and wonder why no nursery or seeing nanny and grandad etc etc. I think although they don’t understand the situation they are effected on some level

Yes! 16 month old is just a constant whinge bag. And as clingy as fuck. Literally wraps his arms and legs around me and refuses to be put down. And I lent my sling out before everything kicked off and won’t be able to get it back now 😭

22 month old absolute fucking nightmare n my house at the moment. I literally wishing the goblins come and take him. He wants to be carried everywhere and roars and flings himself around when you put him down.

2 year old is very attached to me right now, lashing out at her dad, very possessive of her belongings, I think she knows things aren't "normal" right now and in need of some extra reassurance

Was this thread reading my mind?!

My 2.5 year old had been an amazing sleeper for his whole life until two weeks ago we had to move him into his new big boy room to make room for his 5 month old sister in the nursery. Literally waking up at 4.30am and not settling, ready for the day and throughout the night. He’s seriously slowly killing me!!! 5 month old sleep through till 8am!!!!! It’s absurd!

He’s usually at nursery three days a week and is now home which has multiplied it all by a million I think. Plus his dad is wfh so it’s all really unsettling for him.

I’m so tired, I’m in bed now dreading the night. I actually said to DH tonight, I feel like my face is falling off I’m that tired

Mine too and my friends have said the same; think it’s a mixture of picking up on stress and worry, me having less patience as I’m anxious and the not going out and complete change in routine

20 month old here the same. Ridiculously unreasonable (even for a toddler) and having little Nero tantrums left, right and centre.

My niece was a nightmare today. She's def picked up on the stress in the house