I've got a DD 2.9. She's a lovely little girl, very well behaved and funny. At the moment though, although we get on well most of the time I'm finding her very difficult to be with and very irritating. I really, desperately need some strategies for coping with this.
She says 50 times a day about everything, 'I don't like it,' 'I don't want it', 'I can't do it.'
If you take her to a playground she will not do anything for herself. If she wants to climb I have to ghold her hands and do it. Ditto for every other thing you could think of in a playground 100% of the time we are there.
If I try and play with her, the moment the thing she wants is set up, I have to do everything while she sits doing nothing. She will not be encouraged to do anything. She simply says, 'I don't want it' and asks for something else. Ad infinitum.
If I ask if she wants to go out she says yes but she does not want to go to any of the places we can go to (except the shops, where she tantrums if I don't buy her what she wants, which I don't generally).
If I were to permanently entertain her and expect her to watch me like a TV she would laugh but I'm not prepared to do it.
If I do something else while she is in the same room, she brings me a sucession of things to do. If I do any of them, sshe instantly loses interest.
She has always loved her bath, now she hates it.
Don't get me started on mealtimes.
All she really wants to do is shop and watch TV and it is driving me bonkers .
God I'm ranting and she is normally great company but I just can't stand it anymore.
I do have a three month old DS, which pronbably explains a lot of it. I still need a new approach to try.