My gorgeous loving caring 2.5 year old has become really tricky to be around lately, she’s suddenly started biting and weeing on things/herself in defiance.
we try our absolute best to keep our cool, we use simple rules and boundaries and she’s always responded really well to it.
yesterday she started to throw wooden blocks at my head, I said “blocks are for building not throwing, let’s throw these soft balls!” And she started to scream and attack me, so I removed myself saying I was going to give her some time as can see she’s stressed.
next thing she’s weeing all over her bed and laughing.
I don’t know what I want, just to gauge whether others have or haven’t been through this? Ideas for what to do.
- We have tried being firmer but it escalated things further.
- She gets lots and lots of 1:1 time with each of us, exercise, different things to do to stimulate her brain and keep her active.
- We give her control where appropriate to try and reduce the need for her craving control (as much as you can with a toddler!
- She has a calm corner
- We try to model keeping calm and collected and being patient.
- She eats well (mostly - some days lives off air 😂)
It is making things so hard, I feel like she is using toileting as a weapon, she will say in the car she needs a poo, we stop then she’ll sit on the potty for sooooo long delaying things and doing nothing then hit/kick/bite when we try to get her back in the car.