Can we all have a moan about our toddlers' behaviour?

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A cathartic thread. My toddler at the moment is obsessed with turning lights on and off. With it being dark early this means we're often plunged into darkness and I have to calmly (so she doesn't think it's a game) say "can you please turn the lights back on?". That lasts 2 seconds then the lights are back off again. Repeat. She also incessantly just says "mummy?" And then when I say yes just stands there thinking of something to say. Can't think of anything so just says "mummy?" again. All. Day. If we have to go anywhere she will run and dive under the kitchen table and after asking 15 times for her to come out we have to drag her out kicking and screaming... I could go on...

I love her, of course I do. But goddam.

Mine has just learned to start throwing mini tantrums. They finish quickly, but I suspect they will get worse over time. She's 23 months next week. She's just decided to start to reject food that she's been eating happily since about 7 or 8 months old, which leads to melt downs at the kitchen table and a constant battle to keep dinner time vaguely fun and to stop her diet from going beige (which may of course happen anyway despite my best efforts). Her brother is ASD and a super picky eater and she goes crazy because he has different food to the rest of us. When developmental leaps kick off, or her naps need reducing or shortening, she tells us by pulling split nights and being awake for up to 3.5 hours in the middle of the night. She increasingly wakes before 6am. She's slow to talk and so gets very angry and throws things or hits them out of our hands or off the table when she can't communicate what she wants. She can only focus on scribbling or painting for about 2 minutes. She follows me around whinging and clinging on to my legs, but doesn't do that to her dad. She refuses to repeat words when I say them or get her shoes when I ask her to, but does so for her dad.

She's also freakin' awesome add a total little weirdo, though! !

Oh @teaandkittehs I remember when mine started refusing the rainbow she was eating and started going beige (she almost 3 now so the battle has been ongoing for a while), luckily we avoided the worst of it! I'm sure if you google it the clinging to you think will say she feels the most comfortable with you (mine only really tantrums for me and it says she feels "safest" with me) but still... it's be nice if they were just as comfortable with others sometimes too 😝