Hi Everyone,
My daughter has generally been really well behaved with no real tantrums. She doesn't always listen when you ask her to do or not to do something but it's nothing huge and if it is and she's really naughty she gets a bout on the naughty step which she hates and apologises then behaves.
Recently, I was made redundant and I'm a single parent so at the end of my house rent contract we've moved back in with my parents. She has also just started nursery in what will hopefully be her school next year after leaving the other nursery at the end of July and spending a month with me. She sees her dad every other weekend over night and overnight every Monday night but I don't know much of what goes on because we have a pretty poor relationship.
So since around the time she started the new school nursery.....
On the way home from school she has started whinging for no reason or the slightest thing, really silly things that just wind me up then the more she does it the more annoyed I get.
She has become difficult at meal times, one particular time in Pizza Hut she refused to eat anything and wouldn't come out from under the table. We were supposed to be going to a big indoor play area which she was looking forward to so I am unsure if that is why (because we didn't go straight there) but she was told we were getting lunch first. She was told we wouldn't go and she wouldn't get ice cream if she didn't behave but carried on and wasn't even that bothered when we left. I know it's not the hugest problem but I feel like people are looking thinking I can't control my own child and it's embarrassing. That's the first time she's done something like that and better be the last!!!! Meal times at home she used to be good and stay at the table and ask to leave but now that's gone out the window and she refuses to eat and tries to get down, messes with anything she can get her hands on and with the fork which gets food everywhere and again makes me crosser with everything she does.
With sleep, some nights she's not too bad, but some nights she wakes through the night which I don't mind if there's an actual reason ie. when she's woken from a nightmare or she's poorly but sometimes there's no reason (or nothing she'll tell me) and it just winds me up and I get annoyed because I'm tired.
I'm sitting here now at 6.47 having been awake for 2 and a half hours, and its simply she woke up and refused to go back to sleep, I put the telly on and let her lie in bed with me to keep her quiet and then she started moaning that she was starving which winds me up all the more because she should of eaten her dinner!!!! 
I also don't agree with feeding her too early because I think it just encourages her waking early.
Please help! I know it's nothing major and maybe I've been spoiled with her being well behaved and I have friends with kids who do much worse but I want to nip this in the bud and it's come from no where. I can only imagine there's some sort of anxiety from all the changes but apart from these times she absolutely fine. I think I need to work on a set routine with set meal times and snacks and also on myself because right now I'm struggling to forget it and just enjoy my time with her because it's over now and I know I'm a generally impatient person so probably react sooner than I should