Has Christmas ruined your toddler?!

[bangersmashandbeans]

The excitement of Christmas, change in routine (sleeping at my parents/sisters) and lack of fresh air due to pissing rain appears to have ruined my previously angelic 2.10 year old! She is now refusing to nap despite being tired, creating at bedtime, and is now awake as this god awful hour! Plus her behaviour in general is pretty stroppy. Anyone had this or got this and please can someone reassure me I'll get my perfect DD back soon?!

6am is a normal time for a toddler to get up isn't it?

Dd has been ok but on holiday in the past shes been unsettled but always settled in a few days at home. Get her lots of fresh air today - she won't melt in the rain.

My toddler also 2.10 has turned into demon child in past week. Very stroppy and bratty "I want more presents, gimme more presents" etc. no problem with sleep but is doing things like refusing to tidy up and just as I am about to threaten her with naughty step she takes herself off to sit there!! Argh!
I'm going to work on lots of positive reinforcement and some quality 1 to 1 time with her. I'm quite shocked about how much harder she has become literally in last week!

Isn't 6am normal for toddlers? Or if not, well within the bounds of normal?

Are you more highly strung than usual (with it being Christmas and awkw from home)? Perhaps being shorter with your toddler yourself? Of course they're excited -it's Christmas. Can you enter into their world a bit and join in?

I'm not massively keen on rain but we've also been out each day, otherwise my preschooler would also be a tad manic. We watched the weather with a plan to leave when it cleared, wore waterproofs and went for some lovely walks -country park, beach. Plan b would have been museum or swimming if very wet as she really does need time out.

Good luck!

3yo DD has been nick-named bratfink over christmas. She was a little angel christmas eve, slept well, woke late, then it went down hill rapidly. DH took her out for some fresh air yesterday while I was at work, the strop at bedtime was a lot shorter, and she eventually settled again after I told her 5.30 was too early to get up. Hopefully by the end of the weekend she'll be back to her usual self.

6am isn't normal for my toddler who sleeps til 7am at least unless her baby sis wakes her. But she's still asleep but I'm up as she yelled out in her sleep and woke me. Bah.

Nice to know we're not alone! Feel like she's gone back to terrible twos with everything being a battle I know I'm very lucky but she's generally been more of a 7am than 6am toddler so this is definitely out of sorts for her. Probably doesn't help that I'm working this week so DH has her and potentially spoils her slightly as its rare they get so much 1:1 time. I don't begrudge that at all but looking forward to being back to normal latter half of next week. Due with number 2 in 6 weeks so maybe panicking slightly that my good little girl has become troublesome overnight!

DS's sleeping is still fine but he's been an absolute horror - really hyper, terrorising the cats and my sil's dog, running and stomping everywhere, even shorter attention span than usual and shouting "No!" and "Mine!" all the time and generally throwing strops and tantrums. He is a real Jeckyl and Hyde too - his mood changes on the turn of a coin: super angelic one minute and the devil incarnate the next. I can only put it down to Christmas because the chaos only really began on Christmas Day....

Oh God, just the same here. DS, 21 months has been a complete hyper nightmare. I'm hoping that after next week we can regain some normality. Although we've now got 4 week old ds2 so it's been a crazy month of being spoilt and getting away with murder. Not doubt it will be evil Mummy who has to clamp downing the Fun Police. I think he's going to be even worse when he realises we aren't going to have present and chocolate bearing visitors forever. Roll on New Year now. I've lost count of the times I've said 'he isn't normally like this'.

Yep. Sleeping patterns all over the shop, wanting to unwrap presents all the time, and we even had the stereotypical toddler tantrum over sweets. She doesn't get sweets very often, but the "I don't want dinner! I just want to eat sweets! Waaaaaaa!" had me wanting to crawl into a hole.
Even had to send her to bed with no dinner as she refused to eat anything apart from the Milky Bar she'd had earlier.

The rain definitely doesn't help. It's all very well going out to the park, but having to dry off every bit of equipment because 'it's all wet and slimy' (yep), being berated by dozens of auld ones with nothing better to do "what on earth are you doing taking that poor child out in this weather? It's cruel, that's what it is!" and eventually having DD freak out after being jumped on by a muddy dog shredded what remained of my sanity. Two days of relatively dry weather would be really nice..