Oh. Please. Help. Me. With. My. Whinging. Toddler.

[BountyCack]

I am a patient person but today I am being tested by my youngest (DS aged two and a half...)

It's my "day off" and I have had to do a number of one-off bits of housework, DIY and admin jobs.

Throughout, despite being supplied with lots of different activities and finally a DVD, he has been clinging to my leg whinging "Don liiiiiiiiike it."

Or, wailing "Dink! Diiiiiink!" and then when being offered said dink, "...don liiike it dink."

I know it is a phase and I can't think of anything I could do differently (expect perhaps hire staff). No he is not ill, yes he is well fed... He is just, well, how can you say this about such a cherub... being a total git.

It's just one of those days when Things Need To Be Done and doing them with a toddler under your feet is like having one arm tied behind your back and stones in your shoes.

Thank you for reading and sharing my pain.

Thank you, that is my first one.

doesn't come with advice tho, i'm not at that stage with dd yet

Its like torture isnt it? I had a 20 min car journey with a constant stream of "I. want. to . go. the . park. way" for the whole journey.ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and breathe

Bounty, no advice as I have one of those as well so just wanted to say you're not alone. Normally perfectly lovely but the days when you need to rush/definitely do something/have a deadline he does that.

-- hopefully you'll get to drink that hot.

Hideous isn't it?

I am really persevering with the "choose or mummy chooses for you" tactic and although it was pretty ineffective at first it does seem to be working a little bit better now.

Also if he asks for something and tells me he doesn't want / like it, I just take it straight away. If it's something nice like a yoghurt I start eating it tends to change his mind pretty quick then!

But mainly I think you just have to grin and bear it and count down the hours until bed time . Good luck.

Thanks all.

It's the volume. Newborns have that "feed me, hold me" pitch to their crying... toddlers seem to have a tone of "It's not faaaaaiiiiir" which is much harder to sympathise with.

Although, God love him, he just came and put his arms round my neck and said "Sweep pwease mammy" and is now in bed snoring happily. Hooray I can drink all this tea :)

Christ, yes. I've been serenaded by negatives all day so far. Today I've taken to leaving his unfinished food on the kitchen bench now as inevitably as soon as I attempt to scrape leftovers into the bin, he comes rampaging into the kitchen wailing for said food. Tomorrow I'm going to force feed him cold, soggy weetabix if he so much as whimpers.

The most annoying thing is he keeps on saying he doesn't 'like boys and girls' yet mithers on at me to see his two friends (one has chicken pox and the other is on a long holiday abroad).

Bounty luckily, like you, ds loves his sleep so nap time is a favourite with both of us. Shock double bonus - I've got dd2 off to sleep at the same time. Party!