My 3.5 DS is incredibly kind and loving when he wants to be, but he is increasingly becoming more irritated over tiny things. It could be because we're not playing a game correctly, or we've misheard him. Recently he's started talking rudely to us, saying things like "no mummy that's not what I said" and just generally talking back to us or arguing points for the sake of it, thinking he's right. I know we're in the three-nager stage but sometimes there is zero reasoning with him. You just can't get through, and eventually he has a huge tantrum and once he's out of it he's calm again.
We originally put it down to tiredness, starting nursery 2 days a week and just being a toddler. But the attitude, the temper tantrums and constant whining about everything is driving us a bit mad!! We try to stay calm, he won't do any breathing exercises but I have got him to hit a cushion a few times to help calm him down (it stopped him hitting me). We've tried telling him that's not how you talk to people, and we take nice things away when he has really bad behaviour but I think he's too young to understand the consequences. I just want to help him process his irritability in a better way, but I'm at a loss..does this last for a long time?!