My toddler hates me

[toddlerchaos90]

As title my daughter is almost 2 years old and it genuinely feels like a lot of the time she hates me. When her father is around all she wants is her daddy screams at me and won’t let me even touch her. I’m solely responsible for getting her ready to either go to daycare or my mum all 5 weekdays and she cries for daddy, is difficult in that she fights me at every turn, from getting dressed to brushing teeth and hair and even fights getting her jacket or coat on and getting into her car seat. It’s gotten to the point where quite often I’m struggling to get to work on time, both of us parents work full time and my husbands job starts really early so he’s only there weekend mornings. When he is home evenings and weekends my daughter loves her daddy which is amazing but she hates me, she’ll push me away and scream for daddy and she’ll scream at me, I’m feeling really low and depressed about this, I do everything possible to reduce the meltdowns but nothing works, she basically hates me and I’m struggling to cope with this, I spend most of my time alone upset and crying because my daughter who is the best part of my life hates me and I don’t know how to fix this

[Outliers]

My approach is that she doesn't have to like you, especially given you are probably establishing boundaries on her autonomy.

However, she does have to respect you. That's where education and discipline comes in.

[Weloveflowerss]

Hi, sorry I know this is an old thread but just wondering if there’s any update? I’m going through the same thing and it’s been like this for months.