Terrible twos!

[gentlyscented]

Anyone else struggling with this stage?

Dd was two in November and is full of mischief, she thinks everything is a game and and will do something she shouldn't while looking to se if if your watching her and wants to be chased 🙈

She has no interest in her toys and would rather just play/touch things she shouldn't. She climbs up on the table and I must get her down 1000000 times a day and every time she laughs like it's a game! She's not good at sharing toys with other kids, she can't really entertain herself and needs encouragement to just play with something on her own, then loses interest really quickly and walks away and does something she shouldn't.
I'm losing my mind with her 🤦🏻‍♀️

What types of things does she do that bother you? As far as climbing and touching?
A lot of times we put unnecessary restrictions. Example my son is allowed to touch everything in the house except: oven, cooker, plugs. That's all. Anything in his level is fine. He open the cupboard and takes out pans, plates etc. I just leave him to do his thing. But I make sure he cleans it all up after. If my son climbed on the table I'd leave him there and let him try and forgive our how to get down. Even if he cried I'd tell him, you climbed on the table now you get down. And I'd let him cry a good 10 minutes and then put himself down so he knows he's not gonna have it so easy getting down. Just a though

She's going through a throwing stage at the minute so just picks up anything that she can reach and throws it🙈 my phone,remotes, toys, her sisters toys. She also puts everything in her mouth, coins, Barbie shoes, anything dangerous she finds.i have a stair gate on the kitchen so she can't get in there. Honestly she's a danger to herself, and has no fear. The reason I get her off the table is because she's extremely clumsy and has fell off before in the past. She's so hard work and by far the hardest child at this age I've ever had 🙈

Ds cousin is like that so I see how dangerous is could be. I got lucky and got a really mellow/gentle child. He's so careful and calculates his steps. If something drips o tips over he picks it up and cleans up after himself. He acts like an old man everyone jokes that he's an old soul or is reincarnated cause he acts like an adult lol he did go through a throwing stage though. I told him please don't do that. And looked him in the eyes face to face. I said "if you throw that I will take it off you. He tried a few times and each time whatever he threw was taken off him. And he eventually stopped .but every child is so different. So what might work for one might not for others. Idk all I can say is speak to her like an adult and explain everything g to her. Is there any way you could block whatever she's using to climb on the table?

@lovely36 my 4 year old is like that. Really gentle and careful the complete opposite of this one 🙈 she pulls the chairs out and climbs up. I even started putting the chairs on top of the table but she was just pulling them off and nearly caused one of them to fall on her. There really solid wood so god knows how she managed to move them. She's a little monkey, this morning she pulled a cold cup of tea off the side but waited until I was in the room and looking before she did it 😐
I think half the time she's bored, we spend so much time at home and I think she's needs to be out running around burning some energy. But it's hard to get out. Costs money every time you want to go anywhere and I don't have the funds atm, I take her to group on a Wednesday morning and she's with her nan on Thursdays. Weathers horrid and we've both got virus.

@gentlyscented is she at all verbal? a lot of times at this age frustration comes from the fact that they cannot communicate effectively and manifests itself in naughty behaviour. However the fact that she has no interests in toys and still mouths everything is a little bit concerning.

She sounds hilarious 😂 my son get so whingy and whiny if he's in all day and Same as you I don't have the funds to do too m at things since I'm a stay at home mom. I take him on a 30 minute walk every morning though and after noon no mater how the weather is. It calms me down and he burns off energy. It's meant to snow tomorrow :( so I might take him to the museum. Crossing my fingers it doesn't snow too much.

@AladdinMum she talks fine, can tell me what's she wants no problems there. I think when I make a fuss about her doing something wrong she sees it as a game and keeps going to it watching for me to take it off her! Like the putting things in her mouth. She'll put it in and come to me and giggles waiting for me to get her in a head lock and prise her mouth open 😳🙈

@lovely36 she's a little monkey!! Honestly you can't sit down for 2 minutes. She's stopped napping too so it's like this until bedtime 😱 I literally want to rip my own hair out most days. I need to get her out more I know I do. So hard though, I'm a sahm too with 4 other children too, so life hectic. I'm trying to figure out at the moment if we can afford for her to attend a couple of morning sessions a week at pee school or at least one! She needs to be around other people other than myself. Not sure if it's possible yet though. Oh please no snow 🙈