Help, need advice on 3 year old acting out

[betterstayanonymous]

My DD1 is very nearly 3 and is acting up a lot at the moment. I know there's some really good reasons for this - an age thing, our DD2 was born a month ago, and we just moved house to live with my parents. It's to be expected that all this upheaval would lead to some changes in her behaviour. But even though I understand why she might be acting up, I don't know what to do about it and how to handle it in a way that will help her through this period.

Basically, she's gone from being a happy, outgoing, very friendly little girl to being rude to everyone, shouting and saying 'no' to everything, clingy with me and very whingy and whiny most of the time. I can't remember a time in the last few weeks when she's been really happy, other than when I let her watch TV.

My DH and I have tried ignoring it when she's rude, and tried getting cross, and tried explaining why being rude is not ok, none of it makes any difference. I don't want to be cross with her all the time, but don't know what to do to change this behaviour.

Please advise wise mumsnet ladies...

hi, hope u find this usefull.
I have two children. my DS was of a similiar age when my DD was born. i found one-on-one time with my DS really helped settle him down.
This was normally when DD had gone off to bed, and we would sit and read a story or jump in the bath together. I also found that if i asked DS to help me with DD he was so much more co-operative. Even simple things like fetching me a nappy or helping me when i was bathing DD.
hope this helps you, it worked for me xx