My ds has always been quite a good child. He'll go to bed at any time, and play if he's not tired until he falls asleep. He'll even go play in his cot for an hour if dh and I have to do something (not that we really ever do lol but he would!) He likes a lie-in, and is good in the mornings.
He eats really well, isn't fussy, and is a lot less messy than 3yos I know. He's started potty training, we've had a number of accidents, but he's mostly doing pretty well. He loves brushing his teeth, reading stories, and he prefers healthy food to unhealthy.
So where did my little saint go?
He's started not being so happy at sharing with my two main mindees - I've had them well over a year so he's been growing up with them and has always been fantastic at sharing. They don't share though, and I feel it's rubbed off a little, and now he's almost horrid to one of them, and will even shove him and things. Yet he can still share occassionally, and will comforth them if upset... but mostly will be nasty and won't share.
He's learnt to preface everything with 'please' (dh and I are quite strict on good manners, at home or when we are out he has to say please for simply everything else he doesn't get it, and he says thank you else it's taken off him) and he thinks saying please should get him everything. So his usual daily goal is 'please.....bikbik' I hear it about 400 times a day if not more and it ends in a tantrum when I say no. I don't really know what to do about this, as yes he is asking nicely, but I don't want him eating biscuits! The fact he's asking for something unhealthy is even more of a stress to me as well. Dh thinks he should just never get a biscuit again until he stops (he may have two a week normally??) but the problem is my older mindees are allowed them after school... so granted I can still tell ds no but it's not like we can just not have them in the house.
The same thing goes for two dvds (his current obsessions... chicken little and thomas the tank engine) he asks for them constantly...
He's just started tantrums in other areas, today dh took him for swimming lesson and he just shouted at dh, laughed and ran off the whole time. Dh was mortified, they've been having lessons since ds was born and he's never been naughty before. The instructors actually asked dh if ds was like it all the time at home, and spoilt! Another one is 'this way' when we are out, he wants to go his way not mine.. fair enough but the tantrums again....
What have people done that works? We've always prided ourselves on having a fairly well behaved child, he's never been an angel but he's been good enough..... dh is a little too quick with a hand smack, and I'd rather have another method to stop that.... please help!