I have a 21 month old who has always been strong willed but this last two months life has become practically unbearable. Every nappy or outfit change results in me basically having to pin him down to change him, him trying to break free as much as possible and screaming as if I’m really traumatising him. Getting in the car is the same situation, we could be sitting in the car for up to 30 mins wrestling with him to get him in his car seat while he screams sore the entire time. He’ll pull my hear, bite me, headbutt, scratch my face whatever he can reach. When he acts like this I literally feel like the worst mother in the world as if I’m traumatising my baby through every day tasks. We have always been really active with play dates, classes or out and about and it’s making me want to stay in the house which isn’t an option as he gets bored easy. He doesn’t behave like this with anyone else does exactly as they want which doesn’t help how horrible I’m feeling over it. Is this normal? He breaks me so much that by mid afternoon every day he’ll have me in tears over something. People say it’s just a phase and it’ll pass but it’s really not feeling like that anymore, it’s been going on 2 months now and it just feels like it’s getting worse. I try so hard to keep him busy and happy and everything I do every day revolves around play dates or classes for him and I just dread doing these things now