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 🤦🏻‍♀️

And I've agreed to meet a friend with her one year old today. I don't want to now. I can barely bloody cope with mine let alone someone else's!

My 2yo has gotten into the bad habit of picking at meals and then helping himself to snacks. I am sick. To. Death. Of making proper balanced meals for them to be binned or thrown to the dog. No snacks since yesterday morning and yesterday he ate 1 meal, so far today he had a spoonful of milk from his cereal and half a bottle of water. Not forgetting the 10 billion tantrums since yesterday when he is refused snacks, and the 729729 million times I've had to physically remove him from the kitchen when he's mid-snack-raid.

I 100% know it's my fault but I need to make this stop and get him eating normally again. I feel so stupid for buying so many snacks and letting him help himself! Who bloody does that?! Lesson learned from me anyway.

Can I join. My nearly 3 yo dd is killing me at the moment. Tantrums over absolutely everything and completely feral. She keeps leaping onto her 4 yo brother and trying to attack him, he finds it hilarious. She's liked a possessed Pygmy.

My DH looks after DS during the day whilst I work. Today he refused to eat his tea (also spag bol) until DH put it into a normal bowl and started eating it himself. Suddenly DS wanted to eat it.
We put him to bed an hour ago. He's still awake. Being quiet, but playing with his drink of water in his cot rolling it back and forth. I'm leaving him to it but it's frustrating as all I want is for him to go to sleep!

So she slept for 2 nights straight in her own bed. Then last night woke at 2:30 and was awake until 5am. What.the.actual.fuck.

I've taken her to soft play for 3 hours today and then two hours at the park. At 2:30 I walked into the living room to find her asleep on the sofa 🤦🏻‍♀️ let her have 20 mins and then all hell broke loose when she did wake up. Worst mood ever having a full on tantrum with snot and tears 😬 god help me tonight.

Can I join too please?
My 2.2 yr old had a meltdown before her bath because her socks (that she chose this morning) are ‘too socky’ and is still sobbing about it now. Instead of sleeping.
Anything seems to be setting off the most awful endless tantrums - eg ‘toes have nails at the ends, don’t like it mummy, take them off’. FML.

5 tantrums today. I went out for drinks this eve and came back after an hour because toddler was inconsolable. Both boys are teething so I'm in my own small hell. Currently hiding in the kitchen with tea and a waffle 😂

She was awake again last night 🙋🏻‍♀️ soft play and park did sweet fuck all! I give up. So so tired this morning. Thank god she's at the grandparents this weekend 😴

@dreamyflower oh god. I hope they both settled ok in the end x

Mine was awake from 3.00 to 5.30 this morning!!!

There must be something in the air - my DD is doing the same, up for a couple of hours every other night. Can't even blame teeth as they're all through now 🙄

Today we had the biggest tantrum so far. In public. Brilliant. In the park, because I’m out his ball back in the car. Screaming, hitting, lying down and rolling around in the muddy path. Took his wellies off and threw them down the hill. Embarrassing and exhausting! My eldest then fell in the river. Successful trip!

DS woke up at 1am. DH took him downstairs and I swapped with him at 4am. Me and DS fell asleep on the sofa at 5:30am till 7:30am 😩. That was enough sleep for him until nap time at 12.

I'm also in the teenage board as I have a nearly 13 year old ds. I also have a 2 year old ds. My god today was the worst day ever. His behaviour has been getting steadily worse since he turned 2 in February.
He's extremely stubborn, headstrong independent and clever .
The tantrums are roughly 30 a day and if he's not having a tantrum he sticks his bottom lip out. I'm bloody exhausted at least he sleeps!! I'm currently in the bath drinking cider

And at bath time there was a huge meltdown as he wanted to wear his pjs in the bath 😬

I absolutely love this thread, great reason to be on MN.

My 21month old was in the garden, he loves aeroplanes, so.....one flew over head and he was so happy, brilliant !!!! Until he then proceeded to ask "again mummy " ....total meltdown that I have no control over the flight schedules and couldn't make another aeroplane fly over head !!!

I wish I had a ‘like’ button!

5.30 wake-up today.

Just had a shower in the dark. We’re away at the moment and he can reach the light-pull in the windowless en-suite. Luckily I got the shampoo and conditioner the right way round

Then he got a bottle of foundation. Smears in the carpet and his face, which he won’t let us clean off. Hand cream all over his legs. And it’s only 8.30!!!

@Tigger001 🤣 that made me think of DH talking to DS last night. DS was going mental about the fact the TV programme wasn't coming on quick enough for him and DH kept saying "I have no control over the television schedule and can't stop the adverts! We need to wait!"

@Tigger001 he would of loved it here today. We've had red arrows flying over.

Well yesterday I woke up at 5am to Dd retching 🤢 she was sick and then when that finished it was coming out of the other end 🙈 she was suppose to go to the in laws for the day and I'd been looking forward to a child free day! Just my luck..

Last night she slept in her own bed and woke at 6:30am. Not so bad I guess. So glad school starts back tomorrow 🎉

I saw this yesterday and I just had to share 🤣

Has anyone else's toddler got sudden clingyness or aversion to anyone else other than Mum to go with the night wakings? I'm being hit day and night at the minute 😫

Yep. I’ve just had a week off with him and he’s decided to properly go for the clingyness! Hence the shower in the dark. He insisted on coming with me. Constantly asks for cuddles. If I leave the room he’s upset. Never been a clingy child at all before

Last night was spent clearing up vomit, consoling a wailing child, changing diarrhoea nappies x4 and stripping down and re-dressing a vomit and shit covered child x3.

I will fully admit I considered putting DS to sleep in the bath and hosing him down each time I needed too.

He fell asleep in the car yesterday for 2 hours. Knew it was a bad idea, but not much I could do driving on motorways. Ended up paying for it last night. Lost count how many times I was up with him and been awake since 4.30 now. And got to go to work like a zombie

Husband's away for a week so I was doing double duty last night with the toddler and baby. Baby is teething and screams blue murder when she wakes in the night, and in my hurry to go and get her at 4am this morning (so she wouldn't wake the toddler with her crying) I misjudged where my doorway was in the dark and cracked my nose straight into the wall Trying to comfort a crying baby and at the same time stem the bleeding from my nose was multitasking I had not expected from the night! It worked, though, the toddler slept through until 7am

ISeeDeadDandelions yes our DS has started a little clingy phase, this falls after us staying in the house for 4days while we potty train. I think because it was just the two of us, and he had my undivided attention (watching him very closely).

On visiting family he didn't even want to run around the play area with his cousin, mummy had to come with him !!!!