terrible two's

[jenny180283]

my son is 2 in nov but already having terrible 2's anyone else having problems

My dd will be 2 in Dec and has mastered the art of tantrums. My ds was alot easier!!!

my son has terrible tantrums and his favourite word is no

DD can't seem to talk she shouts. And she's always saying no to her brother and shouting at him which upsets him. If she doesn't get her own way she shreek and throw herself on the floor. You'd think she was being murdered.

my dd's same, she's 2 in december. tantrums everytime she doesnt get what she wants and throws herself to the floor rolling around and banging her head on the floor or even the wall

yup, I can join the terrible twos club
The worst experience so far was taking ds to buy shoes in clarks. He threw a toy car at the assistant and kicked and screamed and punched like a maniac while everyone in the shop stared. I nearly cried. He just didn't seem like my child. I kept thinking " but my son doesn't behave like this, ever! Who is this scary person?"

i went to a shoe shop the other day to get ds a pair of flashing shoes as he wants them and the only pair were 30 pounds and as he is growing so quick i thought it was too much so i said that we had to go so he threw a tantrum and everyone looked at me as if i had done something to him

My dd is the opposite. When we're out she's so well behaved. When we're at home she turns into a little cow. People don't believe me when I say she's the devils child. I took her for new shoes last Fri and while the bloke was measuring her feet she kept tickling him under the chin and flirting. She's not even 2. I don't remember ds doing any of this. Alot of our problem is there's only 16 months between ds and dd so dd gets frustrated when she can't do what ds does!!!!

the only reason ds started was because the shoe shop had a little play area and i tried to take the toy he had out of his hand so we could go and he kept saying no its mine

And people assume you've done something to the child by the way they're crying. Ds was walking on Fri, had his wrist strap on that was attached to the buggy. But was playing up because he didn't want new shoes. Some old crow grabbed my buggy as I was pushing it and told me to stop because he's only a baby and couldn't keep up. To start with he's 3, he can keep up and was keeping up he was just pulling because wicked mother that I am was taking him and his sister into a shoe shop to get them both new shoes. I was furious. Anyway that's nothing to do with terrible 2's.

When dd wants something she has to have it there and then. She has no idea of waiting. When ds is watching tv dd likes to stand right in front of it giggling so ds can't see the screen. I love her to pieces but God is she a cow at times!!!

Can I just say I sympathise with this. One of my first posts on MN was on this subject a couple of years ago. It took over my life, made me feel depressed and I even started avoiding going out but what I'd like to tell you is that it does get better. I really, really thought it never would. At time dh and I thought we'd created a monster. We now have the most adorable, well behaved (mostly)four year old.

I look forward to it. I can't ever see dd changing.

i dont know why people butt in everyone knows what toddlers are like u do get some people that think they know it all

It's not just my child in shoe shops then - I feel much better now Jenny, it was the flashing trainers that were the cause in our experience too. Ds didn't want them on his feet!

Thanks for the reassurance, Winnie1. It just seems like 95% of the time ds is his normal, wonderful, loving, well-behaved self but the other 5% is like he's been possessed by demons.

anyone in middlesex that know of a mother and toddler group