DS1 will be 4 soon and he has been going through a lot of changes emotionally/physically/physiologically and I know this can cause problems. The only thing is I am not sure I am dealing with it well and whether the behaviour he is displaying is "normal".
The main issues at the moment are that he gets very, very upset really easily and it seems like it's the end of the world. He cries and whines a lot. He likes to do the "I didn't want this yoghurt!!!" when he explicitly asked for it or he will say no to something then say "Yes! Yes.... I DO want that!!!!" especially when it is something he really does want. Frustrating. He says things like "Why did you hit me Mummy?" out of the blue and usually in front of people when of course I did no such thing. Or he will say I smacked him then when he is told off for making things up he will laugh and say "It's just pretend Mummy....".
There's lots of other things like generally being disobedient, pushing boundaries etc but there are dangerous things too like his favourite thing this week is to run out of the house when we are getting ready to go out and shutting me in the house while I am trying to get the DS2 out of the door in the pram. Today on the way through the secure entry system at nursery he turned and ran back out as the automatic doors were closing so he got shut outside with me inside and I had to press the door release button to get them to open again. He was really upset, screaming when he ran back in. I asked him what he thought was going to happen when he ran out as the doors were closing and he did say "I would be shut outside and you would be inside but I didn't like that Mummy".
I'm just struggling since he seems to be his "old self" some days then totally challenging the next. It usually passes but these days as he's reaching 4 it's becoming inreasingly difficult and none of the old reward chart/time outs etc seem to be effective now...