The toddler life. Potty training, not sleeping, tantrums. Come join this crap with me!

[lucymegan]

If you have a feral toddler and at the end of your tether come join me in this shit show of a stage!

So I have a dd 2.5 she's currently in the garden with a bucket and spade (buckets filled with water and she's using the spade like a soup spoon and drinking it) I've told no 10,000, removed her away, bribed her with an ice pole and she just keeps going back to it. I've given up. She's had her tetanus.
She's also started waking in the middle of the night for no apparent reason and refuses to go back to sleep. So from 2:30-5:30 she's wide away and wanting a conversation. What the hell is going on. Where's my good girl that slept from 6:30pm-7am 😫
She's also started exploring her Pooey nappies and smeared it all over herself! Wtf!
I thought "ok,great she's ready to potty train. So go out and buy her a potty, toilet seat, novelty knickers and fancy pull ups. Within 10 minutes she's shit herself and peed on the floor 😫
Carry on taking her to the toilet..nothing then 5 minutes later shits on the floor..I give up.

Somebody come along please and advise me please. I've had 4 other children and this one is broken I'm sure of it 🤦🏻‍♀️

Place marking in the hope of clawing back some sanity...

My ds was awake from 2:15am to 4:30am last night. I resorted to cramming my body into his cotbed where he just repeatedly kicked me in the stomach for hours. Oh and he scratched my eyelid so it looks like I’ve been in a fight. Yesterday he was sat on my lap when a lovely little girl came up to say hi, he kicked her straight in the chest and she fell backwards hitting her head, all in front of about 30 other mothers at toddler group.
I made the mistake of letting him out of his pushchair on reins, he refused to walk, despite screaming “out” for half an hour. Then I had to literally wrestle the cheeseball back into his chair whilst he screamed and threw his body around in the middle of the high street. I think I might just stay indoors for a couple of years...

Ohhh I’m so glad I have found this thread!My just turned 2 DS is constantly fighting his nap this week even though he is clearly shattered... he instead chooses to stay awake and pull my hair and throw things while I’m feeding 8week old DS2... I end up putting them both in the double buggy and walking around town for ages just so I don’t have to put up with his nonsense.

I have an 10 and a half month old but feel the same. Please don’t tell me it will get worse?

So. many. tantrums. When going in car seat/ pram. Spends most of her time attached to my leg. Awful nappy changes (won’t let me, poo everywhere). Tried to take her to a baby group all she did was try to escape/ go through everyone’s bags.. cry when I stop her. All while the other ones calmly played with toys. I let her play in the garden the other day she ate the dirt and tantrummed when I wouldn’t let her. In the process of building a separate space in the garden for her so she can actually get fresh air!

Luckily she’s cute but how I will take another 2 years of this I don’t know. Hopefully she will calm down soon as she’s definitely having the toddler years early!

Another mum who can relate to the feral wild child!!

I have just had to stop my 2yo from diving head first from the sofa onto the wood floor. For fun.

I also have the random eating. Pet food, mud, grass, stones, plants, wood, fabric. Literally anything that can fit in his mouth he will eat.

imagine if we all hooked up and got all our toddlers to play in the same area and invite "supernanny" to see how she copes!

My dd is 22 months so not even two and this morning she woke up at the arsecrack of dawn so I brought her in with us and she wouldn't go back down and then smacked me because she wanted to move my pillow but my HEAD WAS ON IT. She then cried because it obviously hurt her hand when she smacked me and wanted me to kiss it better!! Urrggfhhhhhhh

Mnah I had one of those , fortunately he's 45 now 😂😂😂

I'm so glad I'm not alone in this struggle lol. Dd hasn't been too bad today. She's been outside most of the day and then we went to the park before we picked her sister up. I'm hoping that her being good today isn't going to mean that I'm in for a night of it with her 😬

Can I join the party? I had a great sleeping 2.9yo who now wakes every night and comes in with me, wanting to chat for an hour or two in the middle of the night. I'm shattered too as I'm just not used to it!

@ISeeDeadDandelions it's a killer isn't it? I had almost a year of sleeping through the night until she snatched it away from me 😩 arsehole.

Well I spoke too soon. She's tipped the cat litter on the floor, and pulled the shoe rack over. And as I was typing this dd4 put the outside tap on and couldn't work out which way too turn it off so , the dogs soaked and dd2.5 is sat in the puddles 🤦🏻‍♀️ 1.5 hours until bedtime 🙄

Aw bless you!! I thought it was bad enough with my just turned 3 year old. Although I think I'm pretty lucky after reading what you are going through!!

My 3 year old is driving me up the wall with potty training. I think he just enjoys being naked️.. Will pee on toilet and potty if nothing on, put him in clothes and he decides that he will just pee in them!!

As for sleeping takes him a good hour and bit before falling to sleep but doesn't help he shares a bedroom with his twin 18 month old sisters!! Who still wont sleep through!!

Fussy eater argh I give in, one minute he likes something the next nope yuk! Chips listen to this.. Mash, home made chips, fries, oven chips all different ones, smiley faces, potato alphabets, potato waffles - nope nope nope yukie.. Mc Donald's chips and pizza shop chips will eat till the cows come home!! Wtf..

Kids are so random!!

His banana broke!! He wants his pants on/pants off. The yoghurt is finished (he finished it) he has to hold my hand beside a road... The list is endless.

I totally get it! Every. Single. Thing. is a tantrum! He's 2.5 and we've had them since he was about 11 months... I keep hoping it's a phase but it seems to be a long one

@Goodenough06 (and several other PPs) my DS1 was like that. He'd also start a tantrum with us (well, me) at home, have a lovely day with the childminder, and then pick up where he left off with me in the evening.

It got better. When he turned 4 it started improving (enough to consider having #2) and continued to improve since then. He's still relatively highly strung, but he doesn't physically beat me like he did when he was 3.

And DS2 is completely laid back and lovely in comparison (although still feral!)

Hang in there everyone. This will pass. Eventually. Do what you need to to survive.

I just poured milk on her cereal for supper because she asked me to. Apparently that was entirely the wrong thing to do. Floods of tears. It it bed time yet 🙄

Today brought a wobbly in the polling station because he wanted to post my ballot paper. Perfect.

Aren't they just little darlings 😬
I've had to sit in her room for 20 mins while she fell asleep tonight as she kicked up a fuss at her dads last night so that's what he did, so did it here too. Grrrrrrr. Going to have to steel myself for a bedtime battle of wills soon I think. I hate being a meanie.

So glad I’m not alone! DS 2.7 has suddenly started massive tantrums. DH is going back to worm after taking extended leave with him and he’s doing more days in nursery.

Clearly shattered but fights going to sleep.

Yesterday getting dressed = tantrum, breakfast, asked for Cheerios and clearly that was wrong = tantrum. Wasn’t allowed my coffee = mean mummy. Wanted to go on the train then cried because the train wasn’t orange.

All before 10:30

Sigh* work not worm. DH is not a worm

Oh yes. Random night wake ups and shouting or chatting away for hours, refusing naps, refusing previous favourite foods, saying "no I'm not" to EVERY QUESTION.
The list could continue but I gotta go and get the goblin to bed. 🙄

OMG some days I think if I hear “no I not” one more time I might have a tantrum myself!

I get "no I aren't" which is truly truly grating after the eleventy billionth time you hear it. No matter how many times I correct her, it's still the same the next time 🤦🏼‍♀️

My dd has started to say 'nurrrr' which is no in a really annoying way. But it's every time she sees me or ask her anything (even if the answer is actually yes). I am so sick of hearing it.

Not think on that = 'I don't think so'

Every. Single. Thing. I. Ask.