Bad mother

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I feel soooo bad. DD jst bit me when I was trying to brush her teeth - she laughed at me and I slapped her on the hand and chucked her dolly to the other side of the room. Never done it before - hit her that is. She is 2.3 and is so willful at times

Had tried time out to no avail.

Welcome to the club! Don't fret too much, such times can be sooooo trying. And don't worry too much if some judgemental people on here go on about "the morals of smacking children".

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Ahh well, I'm sure you're in good company here of mums who have momentarily 'lost it' - I know I have. Specially at bedtime, called the witching hour in our house!

Try to put it down to experience. I'm sure you comforted her afterwards. Tomorrow's a new day - she will have forgotten all about it and you will probably feel so bad it won't happen agin.

Agin? Blimey I'm talking Scottish.

Thanks for the support - your right - won't be doing that again!

Tenner says you do when she has rubbed jam all over your new sofa out of spite and drawn on the walls

You are not on your own. I asked my DS 2.5 to stop feeding his dinner to the window earlier. He was throwing it. I smacked him on his nappy and put him on the stair. He cried, but came off the stair to tell me 'dont slap Mac, meaning him'. I give up!!He then proceeded to be really naughty, pulling things off shelves etc. He waited to be smacked, but I didn't. I wish i had smacked him and sent him to bed as my house resembles life in a baked bean can.

smacked her for the first time this week for terrorising the cat - could here her hitting it from upstairs naughty step and naughty corner not working anymore she tells me she is being naughty and goes and sits there! shout at her and she laughs at me and then carries on wiht whatever she was doing started really pulling my hair hitting and biting me and running off into the paths of cars she is 2.2 very wilful and nothing works!!! my mum said its all my fault!!! seem to spend the entire day shouting at her sending her to the corner confiscating toys threatening her wiht smacking etc anyone who sees me in the supermarket will think im a dreadful parent!! terrible twos is definately an understatement!

Oh I'm glad to hear others are going through the same. Willful is certainly the word for it. My DD (2.5) deliberately does something naughty, runs away, waits for me to chase her then shouts "I'm sorry" and thinks that's it but then she just does it again. And again and again. She tells me to "shhhh" when I shout at her to stop it and then says "stop screaming" at me even if I've only just raised my voice. The whining starts the minute she gets up these days and the whole day is a test the boundaries experiment. Thankfully she is a good sleeper so getting her off to bed is such a luxury

God I feel much better and normal again - just had dh on phone - sometimes I wish he was here and I was on a course - then he'd know what its like on your own!

from about 430 onwards the behaviour gets more challenging and it is a thank god its bedtime in x hours!! send her to nursery in afternoons as she is worse then! 2 afternoons a week of peace except apparently she is a little angel there!! horns come back on the minute we leave!

Airbabe - mine is exactly the same with the childminder!!! Does exactly as she is told and is a little angel. Holds on to the DS's buggy whereas I have to have one of those dog leash things else she'd be off!!