Calling all mothers of incessant whingers......

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How do you cope without losing your sh*t on a daily basis?
Nearly 3 year old DS never ever stops whinging, no matter what we’re doing and I try so hard not to snap but by 5pm it’s all I can do not to throw myself out of the window.
Does anyone have any tips on dealing with it or just some solidarity would be good. Anyone who can tell me that they used to have a whinger but they just magically grow out of it?!!

Sorry, that should obviously read PARENTS of incessant whingers!

Yip. I'm in the same boat. Sorry no advice as I also was to pull my hair out by 5pm so I know how you feel. It's not easy.

Thanks Nathansmummy, at least I know I’m not the only one struggling. I wish I didn’t lose my temper all the time but I don’t know how else to stop it - it literally goes on all day long and I also have a 4 year old dd to manage at the same time. He’s always been a whinger and I just can’t stand the thought of years and years more of this - I want to enjoy my time at home with him but I just don’t know if I can manage and if I’m better having him in nursery/CM full time rather than snapping and boiling over every couple of hours which doesn’t do either of us any good.

Oh it's hard isn't it? I have a whinger. He's 8and still has moments but responds better now when I tell him to stop (yell at him to stop). I think 2/3 is the worst age for this so it does get better.

The only thing I found that helped was to calmly say 'I'm sorry I can't understand when you talk like that' with as much genuine concern as possible and on repeat until he stopped and said that whatever it was nicely. Did work but by gum it takes a lot of self control.

I have an almost 3 year old DS who is a massive whinger, it drives me mad. Mwahhhhhhh all bloody day about something and nothing. It's worse now that he's dropped his nap, the hours 5-7 test me to my limit. I have empathy but no suggestions as I am a rubbish parent, but am going to following this thread in the hope that someone had a solution!

Thanks all. Fivechukchuks that’s spot on actually - I started to do that a few weeks ago and have completely forgotten about it somehow. It was working too - as soon as I said I couldn’t understand him he did stop to use a normal tone other than the usual whinge pitch.

Will try and get OH to do it consistently too and hopefully things will start to improve (that’s if I can control my very short fuse for long enough!)