DD, 3.5, has been getting more and more difficult and I wondered if anyone had had similar experience. She'd been awful from about 2 - 2.5, lots of tantrums, refusing to sleep at night, fussy eating, refusing to get in the bath. She improved over the next few months or so and was really quite lovely, but still had the odd regression.
Then at the end of Sept she started at a new nursery when I went back to work 2 days a week. DS (1) is there too. I like the new nursery, but it's Montessori and more structured than the old one, and DD is there 8-6, longer days than before. She seems to find it very tiring. Her behaviour has gone wrong again - lots of tantrums, all the same things as before. What's worse is that she's started doing it at nursery - esp at mealtimes. She often throws herself on the floor when her lunch/tea is given to her, and turns into a dead weight and refuses to try it - unless it's pasta. She also gets very upset if another child takes a toy or something off her. The teachers seem to find her behaviour unusual and quite shocking. They've suggested we get outside help re the food fussiness.
My sense is that she's still only 3 and we shouldn't have too high expectations of her, esp since she's only recently started at the new place. She's never been great with change - i think the previous behaviour was partly caused by birth of DS when she was 2.4. But sometimes i wonder if this is actually quite unusual and we should see a child psychologist or something to get some strategies. Wonder if anyone has any thoughts?