My three year old is an active happy child who questions everything.
When I ask him to do something he doesn't want to do it can develop into a bit of a bribing scenerio. Example, time for bed. He says he's not tired. I say well we have got such and such a story to read let's do it. He has to be cajoled and coached into doing lots of things he's not keen on.
Recently when we are out in public he has become quite defiant. It is embarrassing and stressful. Today whilst waiting for a bus I told him to get off a child's pushchair he was climbing on. He had met the child at a playgroup we had just been to so he wasn't a total stranger. He said no and then told me he didn't like me. It is upsetting and hard to manage. I ignored the comment and removed him from the pushchair. He got up on it again. My son is a big boy so it isn't easy to move him physically. I spoke to him about the matter later and said mummy loves you and it makes me sad when you say things like that. He is a well adjusted, boisterous boy generally and I think quite clever. Is this sort of behaviour normal? any ideas on how to address it?