Help with 22 month old

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She's turned into a monster.

Firstly she's started scratching, hitting and pulling hair. Sometimes it's randomly to me or her brother or after she's been told no. She'll throw the nearest object in a rage when told no, then come over to me and hit me or scratch me.

Other times we will be playing nicely and she'll just suddenly hit or scratch me. Same with her brother. Very sudden behaviour change and its sore and irritating. How do I deal with it?

Simple no? No and a warning of time out? Time out?

Then her sleeping has also gone to pot. She used to self settle completely alone in her cot. She was great. Now she screams the house down if I try to leave. She never went to bed until 9:40pm tonight.

Any advice

I think sleep, or the lack of, might be the cause. Is she getting a nap? Could she be overtired?

Shes now refusing to nap in her cot (also very recently) so will nap in car or buggy but usually not til very late in the day. And for not more than an hour.

Should she be sleeping longer during the day? She has 11-12 hours at night uninterrupted.

I think an hour in the day and 11 to 12 at night is ok so she may not be overtired after all. Ask Dr Sears has sone good advice on hitting and biting here

Sounds like your kids hit the terrible 2s quicker than expected. maybe try get her a little toddler bed to make her feel a bit more in control than a cot. Try waking her a little earlier in the morning so she can take a nap during lunchtime. Persivere with it see how it goes for a few weeks

I thought that too, maybe it was the terrible twos starting. She's also having a progression with speech, understands loads, talks in small sentences ect..

I might try a toddler bed although im not sure if I'm ready for the constant getting out of bed that will inevitably happen. Also she doesn't have a cot bed so I would need to buy a toddler bed and was initially planning on giving her DS single bed when she was about 2.5 as he wanted bunk beds for his birthday. Might consider it now however if nothing improves. Tonight I had to hold her hand whilst she fell asleep whilst she demanded to sleep in my bed, demanded milk, a book ect.. honestly shes unbelievable such a diva.

I’d like to tell you they grow out being divas, you think it’s bad now wait until they become teens, Oofta give me back my kids when they were 2 any day of the week,
But seriously she will settle down when she starts nursery class

I did wonder if it was a girl thing. My son was wild in an energetic boisterous way, running & climbing everything. Shes wild in a demanding way. She will sit nicely and draw, play nicely but give her the wrong cup, read the wrong book or put the wrong tv show on and she goes wild.