Struggling with my two year old today.,

[Writerwannabe83]

I'm so stressed, my two year old is being a f**king nightmare today and I'm losing the plot.

He's been awake for 5 hours and for three of them (on and off) he has just grizzled, screamed, yelled and cried because he isn't getting his own way. As well as all his screaming he is hitting, pushing and throwing and it's simply a result of not getting what he wants. I'm seriously going out my mind.

His main reasons for tantrumming this morning are because he's not allowed chocolate biscuits for breakfast, he's not allowed to play with batteries, he's not allowed to mess around with bathroom taps and he's not allowed to walk on the kitchen worktops.

I don't know where my gorgeous boy had gone but the horror that is in his place is mentally draining me.

Please tell me I'm not the only one to have to deal with this. I can't cope with this for another 8 hours until bedtime

I'm looking at him now on the baby monitor and he's just ripped his sleeping bag off and thrown it over the side of the cot closely followed by his pillow.

howilove - although me and DH are TTC DC2 I'm absolutely dreading the thought of another baby coming onto the scene

People tell me it's much easier with the second as you're more "chilled out" and I'm just clinging onto that.

Can I join this terrible two year club please? We've had tantrums from my 25mo DD since returning home from nursery over 1- not being allowed to tip a melon fruit box over the kitchen floor, 2- wanting to wear big girl pants and then promptly running off and crying when they were given to her, 3- not being allowed to use pink chalk to draw on the rug. I've only had a 3hr stint this evening- my sympathies to all those dealing with this on a full day basis! I find the sheer frustration of not being allowed to do something is what tips DD over the edge. We do explain a lot of the time but it's generally met with 'why?' Repeated 4 times over

It's just exhausting isn't it. I'm sick of hearing myself tell him off for the same thing over and over again.

ah Cars, writer - we watched the first half hour of that. And the first 20 mins of Shrek. And 30 mins of Toy Story. And all of Finding Nemo. (My weapon of last-resort). I normally share the day-shift with DP but he worked all day today. Nursery for 3 blissful hours tomorrow afternoon so I can at least pick the poor baby up when he shouts without being told "PUT DS2 DOOWN NOOOOOW".

Those of you contemplating / dreading DC2 - I promise that in my experience the younger IS more chilled, even if no-one else in the house is!

I hate to say this but DS2 is much harder work than DS1 in terms of tantrums and general difficult behaviour. Most likely because he has a very strong and forceful personality, and is rather strong willed. DS1 is no bother but always bloody ill

Well after DS only allowing me 4 hours sleep last night due to tantrums and other issues I have to say the idea of having a DC2 is losing its appeal.

He's at nursery at the moment, I'm picking him up at 1pm and I'm dreading it because I'm so unbelievably today and can't face another day like yesterday. I think that when DH is home in going to hand DS over and then have a soak in the bath!

You're lucky he's in nursery OP so you get some time alone, imagine it 24/7!! :-) x

I can't imagine doing it 24-7.

He goes to nursery two days a week and sometimes those sessions fall on days that I'm not at work so I get a good 10 hours to myself to recharge my batteries.

Usually once a month I request my shifts to enable me to have a day home alone and it's bliss.

10 child free hours sounds wonderful!

Toddlers are sent to try us. Last night I had my first glass of wine at 6.55. Five whole minutes after dp came home, such was the level of antagonism after 12 hours of whining, screeching, tantruming and general pain in the arsery that was my darling son yesterday.

He. Will. Not. Do. As. He. Is. Told. Ever. In his infinite fucking wisdom dp taught him how to remove the batteries from his v tech cars with a penny. That's not been at all dangerous or annoying . It's up there with when he taught him how to wrestle which he chose to practice his 10 month old sister.
Three year old are easier right?

We had a similar morning so I put him down for a nap (rare nowadays) and he slept for two hours! He's still clingy now but much less grumpy, thank goodness. I'll pay for the long nap at bedtime but he was so whingey I didn't know what else to do!

Ds is 27m. I'm thinking of asking MI5 if they want to use him instead of waterboarding when interrogating terrorists.

On Tuesday, He woke up at 6 then spent about 2 hours trying to slide down the stair banister. Then I had to go to work for 7 hours and when I picked him up he kept crying because I wouldn't let him "drive the car" (meaning he wanted my keys).

People ask me, at a rate of about twice a week, when I'm having another but I'm definitely not planning it anytime soon.

I sympathise with daddy teaching them naughty behaviours!

My DH has been teaching my DS how to "seat drop" whilst bouncing on the bed and last night he Seat Dropped in his cot and broke it. All the wooden slats that support the mattress have split in two Poor DS had to sleep in a cot last night where his cot mattress was being supported by a rolled up quilt

I'm at work today and he will be in bed by the time I get home thankfully

After an entire week of sheer torture sustained on more biscuits and tv than I pretend I'm comfortable with, the other DS1 woke up this morning. The adorable one, who administers hugs and allows me to change his nappy, who kisses his brother instead of demanding he's put outside the back door. He's been a delight all day...

It's a trick. I know it is.

I FEEL YOUR PAIN!!!! I have three under three. Oldest has been a cryer/tantrummer/non sleeper since the very day they pulled him half dead from my tummy lol. Up at 4am and never played on his own. Constant screaming, tears, tantrumming. Wasn't until he hit about 2.3 that he started to get better, and it was evasive he was learning to talk. He's so much better now though, but by god, some days I would scream and ugly cry and have breakdowns every day it was so awful! Hear days it really is amazingly better, but he still has moments, mostly at night when he wakes half asleep still, tantrumming because the dog isn't in his room (we don't own a dog), or why isn't nanna here (she lives 2 hours away), or why can't he be on the moon RIGHT NOW (ffs, seriously?). I've survived hour by hour sometimes.