Terrible Twos trauma group....

[CountessDracula]

Anyone else suffering at the moment? Honestly I have just been hanging out for bedtime all day....

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I thought MY dd was the Queen of Whinge!

lol

The most annoying thing is all the stickers she gets from Nursery for Being such a good tidier upper and for being helpful!

The teacher said she was so considerate of others and kind at parents evening. I nearly fell off the (miniature) chair!

Oh good dd has just emptied a bottle of milk all over her mattress on purpose and sang "when you wish upon a star your dreams come true" to me as I was clearing it up

Do you think if I wished she could be a nice, good girl that would come true?

deep breath CD ..
and remember... they won't be this 'cute' forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feeling MUCH better after a large glass of wine

Funny, yesterday she was a little angel all day and today the devil!

Yesterday we were queueing in M&S and she shouted very loudly at the nice lady talking to her that Mummy and Daddy put toothbrushes up their bottoms! FFS I went bright pink - luckily when the lady had asked her name a couple of minutes earlier she had said Poppy Pig so I really hope she thought dd was telling fibs about the toothbrushes too

Know just how you feel......DD is a bit older, but "the song remains the same". I look forward to the weekends so we can get in some wonderful dd/mummy time, as far too often I feel I'm not able to focus on her properly during the week. Then, the weekend comes, and with it the inevitable power struggles, stubborn behaviour, constant (and often unreasonable) demands - and I watch my perfect fantasy family weekend with dd disintegrate. Find that I'm desperate for Monday morning when I can get some time to myself! Guess we just can't win!

God I'm so glad you started this thread CD. I was just thinking of starting a new one saying "I'm going to murder my almost 3 year old, positive parenting doesn't bloody work, I just want her to do what I tell her sometimes without having to have a battle royal, what am I doing wrong?"

Is it not just her then?!

Well, CD, she does sound kind of creative ...

My dd's 2.3 and hasn't found her 'temper' yet but is becoming more and more of a control freak and a complete ego-maniac. Especially when it comes to me. She's better with dp in general.

BUT I also feel she's quite 'schizophrenic' in the sense that she veers now between being so adorable and sweet to being utterly impossible. I'm not a bad tempered person at all by nature but I do find myself tested to the limit more and more. And I know it's going to get worse!!!

Although I was also under the illusion that between 3-11 they were supposed to become your best mate ...

best mate between 3 and 11 huh? someone neglected to tell my DDs1&2

I'm just jealous of all you guys saying thank god they're in bed.

My dd is still awake in the next room

Can I suggest that we all have a collective group hug{{}}}}} whenever it gets tough (could be quite frequent here!)

You know that saying about only being sent children that you can deal with?.... well I must be a VERY VERY strong woman!!!!!!!!

Oh yes pls I need it tonight Also canNOT cope with being ill ALL the time (dd and me both had horrible tummy bug, then a week break and a chest infection, then a week break and a vile cold, then a week break and now ANOTHER chest infection/cold oh god it's vile )

Does everyone else catch every cold and bug that their 2yo has?

{{{{{{}}}}}}}}}} hugs...
Just for you and dd Cd!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhh feel better already.

Just had dh telling me that it is a nightmare and he hates it - well fucking great, it's soooooooooooo horrible for poor little him swanning around feeling fine while we are both ill, how inconvenient for him

Yes. Not to mention their bloody nits.

Does everyone else feel like they're permanently screaming at the child followed by big hugs and sorries, and feeling that this is not a good example of positive parenting?!

Yep, my ds (3 in about a week) just hands over his viruses, and I am an eager (not) recipient!!

We were all really ill over xmas too... so my sympathies are with the dracula household.

Oh yes we have had nits twice in the past 2 weeks as well

Have visions of the dracula household all sneezing and scratching in their coffins!

nits!!!!!!! don't talk to me about the damn things.....

Got rid of them from the kids....

to find myself crawling with the little bugg**s!!!!!!!!!

caligula

CD - sounds as if you could use another big glass of wine!

I definitely catch whatever dd gets. She seems to recover quite quickly, while it lingers longer with me. I've only last week gotten over a bad cold/cough that I got from her at the start of December! Don't know if it helps, but I've gotten her some chewable children's echinacea that we take at the first sign of a sniffle or cough. Also she takes a multivitamin daily, which I hope makes up for the gaps in her diet. Do you think that might help you too/you two?