DS turned 3 in June and DD is just 1 and I’m finding it absolutely exhausting and so stressful. DS fights us on every single thing (which I know is normal having spoken to my friends with 3 year olds), has moments of shouting at me that he doesn’t love me anymore, occasionally kicks and generally makes leaving the house or leaving somewhere to go home barely worth the outing. However, staying in with the 2 of them is even worse. DD is now walking and she wants to see everything her brother is doing, bulldozes over to him and basically ruins anything he’s doing which then results in upset from both of them and with DS pushing her and shouting. Of course he’s going to be annoyed when his sister is ruining his fun. We try a lot of gentle parenting techniques to help him but more and more I’m just losing my s* because my patience is so worn down.
DD is now at the age where if you take something she shouldn’t have she’ll go nuts, will scream whenever DS tantrums as she gets frightened and is overall quite a whinger.
Please somebody give me hope that it will get better?!!
I should add that they both have moments of calm and being utterly gorgeous and when my DS snuggles me and says he loves me so much I melt. It just feels as though those moments of niceness are fleeting.