2 and a half year old is wearing me thin......

[mieow]

My DD2 is really playing up atm, she screams all day, throws toys, shouts, hits and is very hard work. At night she used to be so good at going to sleep, but this last few weeks she is really playing up, we have the same rountine, bath, nappy on, pjs on, cuddle on the sofa, drink of milk, blanket and dummy (last 3 go up with her) Daddy takes her up while I sort out DD1, kiss at the top of the stairs and into bed, normally asleep in 5 minutes, but recently she has been getting out bed, throwing all the toys in her room about and screaming. We ignore her as much as possible, but today I went into the room and took all the toys out!!! She then screamed some more and started ripping at the blind so I had to put that up. I have just taken DS upto bed and she was asleep in the floor with the contents of the wardrobe all over the floor.
What should we do?

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We do ignore her, (a.k.a controlling crying ) but she can scream for hours

she even has thrown her potty out the room over the stair gate across her door, luckily it wsa empty

Ignore her.

We went through this..lasted a few weeks IIRC. Ds's room is at the top of the stairs and he excelled at throwing things over the babygate at his bedroom door and bouncing them down the stairs..very noisy.
We pretended he wasn't doing it..he eventually stopped and is now an angel at bedtime.

It could be that it you give her attention for this sort of behaviour (even though it is negative attention) she will be getting wht she wants and carry on doing it. If you ignore it (however hard this is) she should get bored of it and tired.
On BBC3 or 4 there is this really good show called 'Little Angels' that deals with stuff like this - so if you have BBc3/4 I would book mark it. Have picked up loads of tips for ds off of it.
I really hope that his passes as it must be upsetting for you. xx

is she just not tired enough to go to sleep on these light evenings? my dd2 is this age and if she has a daytime nap she takes hours to go to sleep now, and plays around in her roo a bit like yours. without the nap she is ratty by the evening but does go to sleep a lot better then.

my two year old is a pain aswell. He wont be left in his room, he can open the doors and scream for england so we have to get him off to sleep downstairs and then carry him up 2 flights of stairs 2 year olds are hard work