DD is 2.7 and a pretty well behaved child on the whole; when she is tired she gets hysterical, mostly about wanting to do things for herself which she is too tired and overwrought to actually manage. She will not be helped. I know she will grow out of it, but what's the best way to handle it - just make her put her pyjamas on and get her to bed, or hold her until it passes (my problem with the latter is that it just prolongs the period until we can get her to bed, which is what she needs most).
the last week she's been waking earlier than normal, because she is over-tired and I'm finding it hard to get her caught up on sleep. She doesn't nap in the day.