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Does your three year old drive you up the wall?

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mum28 · 11/06/2004 19:54

Don't get me wrong,i love our dd 3yrs 3m{},but ever since just before she turned three,she has been driving me crazy.Whoever said terrible twos were bad have obviously not seen many three year olds!.
A lot of the time she is good as gold and quite helpful,but most of the time she has major paddies if she can't get her own way.you can't reason with her.She has always been fiercely independent,then another day she won't do a thing for herself.
Trying to get her to eat anything is really hard work.She's always been a picky eater,but now she doesn't eat hardly anything including her normal food.She won't even look at a vegetable or piece of fruit,but as soon as she goes to nursery,she'll eat fruit,but not any exotic food.
I am interested to hear how any other mums of this loveley age cope?.Any advice would not go amiss either! She's driving me crazy!!

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twiglett · 11/06/2004 19:58

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musica · 11/06/2004 19:59

Yes. He's almost three, and driving me NUTS. He won't eat anything, he won't listen if I try and talk to him, potty training is a nightmare - am just trying to get through the days really.

motherinferior · 11/06/2004 19:59

Oh yes, right up the wall. Right up it and over the top. She's totally adorable but then the SCREAMS and the COMPLETELY UNEXPLAINED RAGE and the refusal to eat at home while stuffing herself on nutritious food at the childminder's...oh yes, mum28, I know so horribly well what you mean!

Slink · 11/06/2004 20:41

YES YES YES, yesterday i said that she could have ice cream after dinner she ate it and got the icecream then wanted another one, after standing in the garden shouting i walked away fron her, about two secs later she comes into the house with a ICE CREAM she said" what i want i will get" she climbed on some paint and opened the chest frezzer and got the ice cream. And night times she would sleep no probs well i have 20mins screaming every night sitting on the floor kicking our legs, arhhhhhhhhhh what two's it the BLOODY THREES.

charliecat · 11/06/2004 20:43

Oh yes, I dont want to go to bed, I dont want to eat, I dont want to walk, I dont want to watch the telly, I dont want to play....all day every day...she does it so often one of those phrases pops out of her mouth even when noones metioned anything to do with it!
And the if she has to eat sleep or walk she whinges all the way through the said task getting herself into a right paddy. I just ignore her, ive been there before and there really is no reasoning so I dont even bother.
Tickling her somethings gets her out of it, only somethimes though.

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mum28 · 12/06/2004 10:44

Just thought of this to add to the rest.i don't know if it's just me or does anyone else have a job keeping a straight face when telling her off as she keeps trying to change the subject by making silly faces etc.
Another thing is she will whine and whine for absolutely ages if she can't get her own way or just screams and chucks herself on the floor until i give in just to keep the peace,which i try not to do.Does anyone else have these problems?

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SoupDragon · 12/06/2004 10:50

I left the wall behind long ago

Problem is the little toad swings between looking totally angelic and cutely cheeky. Aaaaagh!

motherinferior · 12/06/2004 13:48

You've got it, mummytosteven.

I love her so much, and she drives me MADDDDD.

mummytosteven · 12/06/2004 13:50

erm mother inferior - don't recall posting on this thread - bit of an identity confusion????

Chinchilla · 12/06/2004 18:05

Yes Mum28. It sounds perfectly normal to me! I think that they all get to the stage where they are people in their own right, and they then want to test that out! Sometimes it is so hard to stick to my guns over an issue, but I do try!

Soulfly · 12/06/2004 18:10

My ds is 4 and still acts like that not the screaming but the whinging. 'I don't want to' 'i won't' 'i don't lovey ou' ' don't tell me off' ' i'll do what i want' he asks for toast and then says ' i didn't want toast' ARGGHHHHHhh
he grates my nerves very badly.

littlerach · 12/06/2004 18:11

Why, why, why why, is all I seem to hear!!!!

Lonelymum · 12/06/2004 19:41

Soulfly, glad you said that because my dd is 4 and still driving me mad. She starts school in September and I can't wait for her to go (while still worrying if she is mature enough) because in my experience, they grow up quite a bit at school. Then, after a year or two, you get the next horrible phase when they start coming home with words, behaviours, or attitudes they have clearly picked up from classmates.
The thing that irritates me most about my dd is that everyone outside the home thinks she is the most adorable child. They don't see the tantrums, contrariness, etc. When I moan about her, people must think I am the most demanding mother around.

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