I think there should be a bloody support group for parents of 3 year olds

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It's like DS woke up a couple of months ago as a completely different person.

'Trying' incidents today:

1. Complete refusal to even consider wearing any clothes. I mean, would genuinely have been very happy if I'd agreed to send him to pre-school in the buff.

2. Running out into the road.

3. Massive screaming kicking throwing things level tantrum because I'd dared suggest we go out with his friends to a club he normally loves. Because the children are naughty and it's all soggy. Apparently. Needless to say we didn't go because by the time he'd calmed down it was too late. So he had another massive tantrum because he couldn't go.

4. Massive sulk because a kid he didn't know decided to play on the wrong slide. Apparently.

5. Complete refusal to eat the dinner he helped me make because it had (completely imaginary) green bits in it. I wouldn't mind except it's normally one of his favourites.

Now admittedly he's very recently had chicken pox and is still a little irritable but when I think about it, he's been like this for a few months. I also have a 10wo DD which isn't helping. He loves her but is not hugely happy with DH and I for changing his life.

Totally exhausted. Going for a bath and a lie down.

Bumperlicioso Since DS2 I have found it hard not to treat DS1 as 'older' than he is IYKWIM - I have to remind myself that he's still a baby!

(Hats off to you - moving house, chickenpox and a baby within 3 months!!!! [shocked] )

I am too tired to read this thread now - perhaps in part due to my own 3yo - but I'll join up!

Please let me join. My 3yr old is driving me to distraction. I'm this close to ebaying him.

I'm in possession of a 3 y/o DS too. Whatever happened to my cute, sweet little man??? Admittedly, he is dealing with the arrival of DD 1 month before he turned 3 but, dear Lord, can he whinge!!!

He does adore DD and is very good and gentle with her but the sulking, whining and whinging has reached an all time Olympic record! He has perfected the 'Kevin & Perry shoulder slump' when he can't get his own way. Please tell me it will get better or I may succomb to E-Bay too

Oh I recognise the "kevin & Perry" slump too - usually accompanied with something that sounds like "uuhhh" and a face. God, can mine scowl and pout!

I don't remember DD being as bad at 3, perhaps because I worked full time and so nursery had the pleasure of her company all week! Ha!

Signing up...... I'm too shaken to add anything at this point.

DD is only 2.6 but already well on her way to being a very determined young lady.

I hope this thread doesn't die... I have a feeling we all need this support group. [having at 5:43 pm emoticon]

It's 5:43 pm (5:51 now) in my time zone (Pacific).

Trying out new name. Have just started taking yoga teacher training. Maybe it'll help me be less "manic" and more "ommmmmm" :o

Can I join you all in this much needed vent support thread? My 3 yo ds is a bloody pain in the neck! Love him but no one warned me that they got WORSE at 3, I thought he'd improve. Tantrums, attacking his brother, total defiance, refusing to wear shoes, stubbornness, the list goes on. Sorry that everyone else is experiencing the same but I'm glad it's not just me!

can anyone help me with the abvretiations, DD, DH and the rest

There's an acronym link at the top of each page with them listed

Dh is dear husband, dd is dear daughter, ds is dear son. It's odd but I just now scan it to read husband, daughter etc - useful shorthand when typing

I remember this age well: it definitely was the hardest! And I have a teen and a pre-teen, so I know whereof I speak. Only one way to go from here- it gets better! Take heart, it doesn't last forever.

And somehow at 8.15am becomes acceptable when there's a 3 year old in the house.

Looking on the brightside, this morning DS put his clothes on all by himself without prompting, ate his breakfast without complaint, and is now cheerfully playing bug snap with himself whilst singing the star wars theme tune. Either this is a good day... or I'm being lulled into a false sense of security.

Yes please, sign me up too!
Dd no longer tantrums however strops by stamping feet, throwing arms around and argues back.

I also got the typical teenage line of: you can't come to my party but you can pay for it...(she is having a bday party at weekend and I had annoyed her by doing her hair)

Dd also refuses to acknowledge anything I say unless it involves shouting and the word chocolate

God help me when the hormones kick in...

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

This thread has made me chuckle and it's glad to know that after going through the terrible 2's I thought I was out of the woods - oh how wrong could I be! But at least I know others are feeling my pain :)

I am totally convinced that my dd (3.8) has in fact been swapped with a teenager with raging hormones! ...if she is like this now, what on earth will the teenage years really be like??.....
She can be lovely and everyone who meets her thinks she is adorable but I know she is actually a stroppy, melodramatic, screaming monster at times! .is it too early for ? ...
Oh the joys....a trip to the hairdressers for us this morning...I have put it off till now and have cut her hair myself...but it now has got so long it needs a professional cut...and not one from me that takes me about a week to get the cut straight! ... Anyone else want to take her?......she doesn't like loud noise, mess, or getting her haircut... HELP...

After an irritating school run taking DD to school, DS (3) says: 'I wuv you mommy...'

My gorgeous little strumpet uses affection to disarm me, in the middle of an issue where she's clearly done something she shouldn't she 'mummy i love you, can i have a snuggle?'
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! how can i refuse?

It takes 10 minutes to get DS (3y2m) dressed each morning. He ONLY wears hoodies with pockets. No other jumpers. Only wears "choochoo" pants.
Only wears trousers with pockets except for a handful with no pockets and in size 12-18months (so painfully too short). Changes his mind frequently about which pants/hoody/trousers to wear today. It's like a fashion show each morning (sigh).

Will not eat sandwiches, fresh fruit, most vegies, anything unfamiliar...

Lives on mayonaise on bread. Doesn't like toast, but insists on a pantomime of putting his bread briefly in the toaster each time before I can spread mayo on it.

Oh I need to join this support club.

DS is 3 and I swear he eats like a teenager. His favorite phrase is 'I still hungry'. Often after he's refused to eat what ever it is he said he wanted 15 minutes earlier and sometimes I'm sure just to wind me up.

DC2 is due in a couple of months (and I'm already exhausted) so am dreading how DS is going to react to that!

My DD has only just turned 4 but bloody hell my patience is in tatters. She has manifested into a teenager complete with 'whatever' attitude. For example:

Today, when I picked her up from nursery tantrum #1 was because she wanted her Grandma to pick her up and not me

#2 was because I didn't follow the petroloil/ tanker in front of us all the way home - it wasn't going to our house FFS! Why would it, we have gas central heating

and for the finale the daily 'I'm not tired don't want to go to bed ' meltdown. Give me strength

Very glad to see I'm not alone.

DS has just run round the house naked shouting and crying because be didn't want DD to have a bath. Not him you understand. His sister.

And we have guests. Excellent.

My 2.8 y.o keeps having meltdowns as there are shadows. 'Get rid of the shadows Mummy, make them GO AWAY'. She wouldn't get out of the car the other day as every time she moved a shadow appeared by the car door (hers). . I am hoping for a cloudy summer