Toddler backchat when telling her off 🤦🏻‍♀️

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So my 2 year 10 month old girl is becoming a real sassy little thing and I don’t know how to handle her! The main issue we have is that when i try to tell her off for something, she will argue back at me, copying what I am saying...it turns into her telling me off 🙈 She is very good with her words and very strong willed, and I’m at a loss of what to do when I need to discipline. I try to keep what I say concise and controlled but it doesn’t work. Any ideas/ suggestions welcome, feel like a useless mother at the mo!

Right there with you but no advice. DD is 2y5m and all the old tricks parenting methods have stopped working in the last week. I was just saying to DH last night we need to rethink our strategy. We've always explained and used time out but the sass factor is just doing my head in. I realise she is testing boundaries, dealing with emotions and establishing her autonomy but good lord it's trying. Last night and today I had more success by giving more love/affection which stopped things escalating but I'm not sure if that will work in every situation I come up against.
Hoping someone will pop by soon with some different approaches!

If she is parrotting you and you find it rude, it might be a good reason to start thinking about the way you talk to her. We often don't notice that we aren't always nice to our children, until they start coping us (either when talking to us or when we overhear them talking to other children or during imaginative play/roleplay).

Could you give an example of what you daughter might do that causes a telling off and how you react?