Turning 3, and just starting tantrums

[dorris88]

So my DD has been a really good girl, but is now starting to throw screaming fits where she flaps about like a fish out of water.

Am I silly for thinking we may have got away Scott free?

How do you deal with tantrums? These are more like arguments like she'll ask for a hug from dad knowing he's not here, when I say she can't cos daddy's at work she throws a paddy. I explain he's not here and I just get 'well I want one'.

She's not 'spoilt' In day to day life so it's bizarre altho she is trying to be. She will go upstairs to play and hear her older brother change the telly over, and run down and start demanding we put her programmes back on. We obviously say no (nicely) but she throws screaming paddy's.

I'm writing this whilst trying to ignore one about having a hug from daddy 🤯

She is 3 in a couple weeks.

Another 'argument' we have is, she has excema on her face. Some nights she's ok with us putting cream on, some nights you go near her face she screams like I've tried to smack her round the face. Then we get into this 'I don't WANT a story' so we say - ok no story. Then it's tears and 'I DO want a story'.

We stay calm and the MIL says not to argue but both DH and I have this mantra of going to bed on good terms always so we just want to resolve the upset which usually is over nothing and read a story, go to bed happy.

But can spend 20 odd mins arguing over whether she wants mum or dad to read her a story when she does and doesn't want a story.

Does it just pass? She is my first and last and I really don't want her to be this demanding.
She has an older sibling 50% if the time