Feel controlled by a 2 year old!

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I gave up work as a solicitor after my little girl was born - I know I have done the right thing but I do find it very hard to keep going 5 days a week on my own. She goes to playgroup a couple of hours Mon & Tues and we go to other groups/coffee mornings etc. Whenever we are at home I feel as if I can never get anything done - she wants me to do everything with her. She directs me about all the time and sometimes I think I'm going mad - how can a 34 year old ex-professional be unable to control her own toddler? I feel very drained and angry a lot of the time, although she can be an absolute angel and I am always very proud of her when we are out and about...Any tips or perhaps just moral support would be great! I do find it very hard to keep thinking of it as "just a phase" and I'll miss her when she is at school...

Don't want that EVER AGAIN.

This thread has made me feel so much better - I AM NOT ALONE!
DS has just turned 2 and over night he became a horror, tonight we had a full on tantrum because mummy couldn't fix the bread stick that he had snapped in half and when the dog ate it (after he throw it on the floor) well, you can guess.
2 yr olds are exhausting but now I know you are all suffering at the hands of them I feel much better - sorry, doesn't really help does it.

DS is 2 on thursday.
This thread has made me feel so much better.
Thank you all.
Sometimes I love him so much, I don't know what to do with myself.
Sometimes he is so incredibly sweet.
Other times I really hate him.
Is 'hate' too strong a word ?
Well, he drives me to the brink !!!
Nice to know I am not alone.

PMSL MI.

"'saving my battles' (for what? Armageddon?)"

I've only just started to get into MN - and its so fab! I have only just got the chance to check messages - and they were all SO helpful - and most of them made me laugh - you've got to do that haven't you? Sometimes I feel like I don't have any fun anymore, but you have to keep laughing - extremely hard by 5.30pm on a Friday afternoon....I'm so glad other people have joined in to say its helped to know others are going through the same thing. I really do feel much better - thank you everyone! Will hopefully return later - DD is conked out for half an hour but can hear groaning (and no, I didnt hit her over the head with a shovel.....tempted though I was!)

wine helps ime

I tell everyone that DD (2.3) is evil incarnate and no one ever ever believes me, and I'm sorry this isn't PC at all, but girls are so much bossier than boys.