Please, someone tell me they have a toddler like this??

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ðd is 18 months old.

She is into everything. I used to say that when ds was little, what a fool I was! She never stops - she climbs on anything, climbs up and over things, stands on windowsills, opens stairgates, climbs out of cots etc.

When we go to anyones house she is all over the place, in cupboards, touching wires, pulling things out the washing machine.

Oh, and don't even get me started on the car seat straps.

She's been walking almost 9 months so is quite well balanced etc. She doesn't talk much because she rarely sits still. She very rarely sits and plays with anything and if the tv is on she stands to watch it and bounds around. She's just started liking books.

I don't know how to describe her accurately because ds was a 'lively' toddler but this is on a whole different level. She is fiercely independent and stubborn but also adorable and funny too.

I'm knackered and am worried people are thinking I can't control my child i cant but she's only 18 months.......

Sympathies!! DS now 7.5, was the same. I even stopped going to toddlers as i never sat still long enough to have a cup of tea and choc biscuit conversation as i was constantly up after him. Nursery even suggested getting professional help when he was 22 months old as his tearing around was very extreme!!! He saw the child peadeatrician (spelling ) and they said that it was because he was highly intelligent and his brain was developing so quickly he was frustrated. And now in Yr 2 going to the headmasters office once a week to do extra maths and in top group for all topics ....DD is 13 months and turning into him bangs head out of sheer terror only with a temper and stubborness he never had ( God help me)

And he does things that he's never seen another child do and just laughs and says "funny" ....like randomly dropping his trousers and mooning the other mums on our ver naice school run . If DS1 had school friends over he used to charge into the room naked whirling his willy at them to make them all scream and run.... arghhh

God, afish you had a bad 'un! I'm surprised you haven't suppressed the memories forever like I have

Thanks all.

Yes,yes she holds her breath too. She also had severe reflux but can now handily make herself sick on demand, and I mean sick, like the exorcist.

She is currently putting another pair of tights on over the top of the ones I put on. At least she's sort of still and not trying to turn off ds's dvd.

I ve a dd like this. Same as op - ds was energetic but dd takes it up a level.
I find it beat to channel her energy.
Trampoline (supervised with strict rules re getting on and off and how near others you can bounce etc)
Swimming - an hour each Monday - she adores it and is much calmer and behaved for the rest of the day
Avoid sugar (ESP choc ice cream - makes her menta .... Think Tasmanian devil
Cook dinners that involve one pot and you can double up sorehead tomorrow
Copse your battles - I cannot parent dd the se as ds .... As in I ask to do something like put shoes on - he disagrees I say no need shoes of going outdoors ... He puts shoes on.
Same scenario w dd - well through experience - I let her was out shoeless till 50 meters down the road she s cold and asks for them

Ok scrap that now she's jumping off the sofa

'One,doo,wee, GO!'

Loving your typos, Whitelilies especially 'copse your battles', I might use that!

Oh golly sorry for the typos
No idea where sore head bit came from - beat should be best....
Hope you catch the drift of what I was saying