FML! 2 year olds are impossible (light-hearted!)

[Hana89]

This is light hearted, but OMG. My two year old DD has been such a gremlin today and I would pay whatever nursery wanted for them to open tomorrow and get bank holiday Monday to myself!
She has discovered her ability to impact the world around her with "No!" and "I don't want to!" and even if I ask in my usual, cheery voice, if it is something she doesn't want to do, she will say: "Please try to be more polite to me Mummy so I can hear you!"
Everything today has been met with a challenge. The Easter egg hunt
How many little eggs she could eat
Where the other little eggs would be put
Every game or activity has been an issue except for the brief time spent watering our plants which she was happy with.
And it wasn't like it was all overstimulation and madness. She is an only child in a very calm house with no pressure to participate or keep up - we just had a clanger of a day!

I've had one of those days where I've felt at my wits end and I know it is all developmentally appropriate, and that she is a lovely little kid, but damn!

Sending hugs and strength to all the other parents who planned and prepped and tried to provide a lovely day and it did not go to plan for you! 💐🩷

May we all have a better day tomorrow!

Buckle up because 4YOs are even more savage. We've had "I don't love you" to "I want to run away" from my DS.

On one hand you know they don't meant it but damn it is so hard not to feel hurt.

Girls are especially sassy as we are finding out with our 18 month DD.

Mine makes me want to lie down on the floor and go into a coma. She has selective deafness. She has also been successfully potty trained for 2 weeks (having decided to herself, of course, having resisted all our attempts to help her) and her new trick is to say ‘I need a wee’ whenever she wants out of her current situation. And of course we take her as we want to avoid accidents. I think she gets a kick out of trooping up and down the stairs to the bathroom only to say ‘I not need a wee anymore’

@Borgonzola same here! We had to stop twice on a 15 minute drive because she wants out of the car seat. Not sure how we'll manage this going forward!

@Borgonzola Oh yes!! The "I need a wee" is being used very tactically! For someone who can't put her own socks on, her strategic planning is 🔥
I hit a wall around 2pm and set up her little chair with her chalks and her drink and I said "Okay, Mummy is going to have three minutes over here with her coffee." and she agreed, but immediately asked me to play, so I reiterated that I was just going to have three minutes quiet time, and all of a sudden: "Mummy! I need a wee!" .... There was no wee. 🤣

@Tallyrand Oof! That is really hard. I've had "I'm not your best friend!" but she hasn't worked out how to use love as a weapon yet! 🤣
Sending love and strength! 💖

Today my 2.5yo spat water at someone and threw a carrot at another. Both people I didn't know (extended family friends). He is in a massive throwing everything phase. The spitting drink is also new, usually just onto himself but chose today to realise he could do it onto other people. Both things were met with laughter from others so I will have fun trying to parent this away.

Oh AND he has also learned how to say FFS and uses it in perfectly appropriately ways, not sure if that is better or worse. And although we have made sure not to curse at all anymore (not that we even did too much previous but obviously some must have slipped out) he has continued to say FFS for every minor inconvenience he is met with throughout the days.

"ITS ALL DEVELOPMENTALLY NORMAL AND HE WILL GROW OUT OF IT". My daily mantra replaying through my head to keep me sane.