Sick of being Mary bl##dy Poppins day in and day out

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OK I have had it...
Ive had it with singing stupid little songs to try and convince her to do things/ distract her

Ive had it with the holding food in her mouth to be spat in the corner of the lounge later..ditto water

Ive had it with the refusal of dinner and then the constant tantrums because of hunger just to refuse the next meal too!

Ive had it with the calm, firm voice "You need to stop kicking you are making pooh fly all over the lounge", "Oh you are very cross arent you, you need to hit the pillow when you are cross not mummy"

Ive had it with putting her in time out about 20 million times a day

Ive had it full stop with being so nice all the time and doing it all the "right" way all the time because it DOESNT BLOODY WORK!!!

Ok thanks feel a little better now.

there is no way a 2 year old is too young for time outs

DD is 2 .. and a well-used time-out (not frequent and for heinous 2-year old behaviour) works beautifully

You're obviously dead 'ard chez Twiglett then....

I'm 'ard as well then because we were doing 'Ok, you go outside, NO hitting' in our house at hat age. But only for hitting probably.

I find if you dip the end of the cat o' nine tails in water it stings more too