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Toddler behaviour

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Katiemarie96 · 19/08/2025 13:24

My daughter is 22 months old and I’m worried about her behaviour. She’s never been a great sleeper only stopped waking up to breastfeed around 18 months, she then only started waking up for some water and went back to sleep. Now we are fighting to get her to sleep, some nights we’re up with her until 12-1am and she won’t have a sleep during the day so she’s not getting enough sleep which makes her behaviour more challenging. She doesn’t really play with her toys anymore she will just walk around or climb in the toy boxes, climb up the sofas running across them and barely stopping before she falls off, climbing up the kitchen chairs (open plan kitchen and front room with no way of blocking it off) she does scare me at the moment I’m forever worrying about her hurting herself. She has also started to hit me thinking it’s funny and when we tell her no stop it she laughs more. We currently live in housing association flat and on the bidding list for over 2 year in band C because private renting is far too expense for us where we live, but I’m really worried about her hurting herself living here with her having access to the kitchen whenever she wants. She has also become extremely fussy with food, won’t eat dinner only eats certain things won’t touch a lot of foods. She spends most of her day just whinging or crying because she is tried and just won’t sleep. I really don’t know what to do about her behaviour because getting a doctors appointment where I live is so hard. Just need some advice on what to do because we are really struggling to manage her behaviour. Just to add my 7 year old has been diagnosed with autism and she didn’t act as bad as this at her age. I literally spend most of my day walking around after her stopping her from doing things that she knows she shouldn’t be doing or stopping her from doing things that could end up hurting her and I’m absolutely exhausted.

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FTM09q24 · 20/08/2025 12:31

Sounds pretty typical. You can install a gate on the kitchen to keep her out of there.

Becoming picky with food is very typical at this age too.

Is she getting enough exercise? I just went out for a walk with my 1 year old and my 2 year old niece and my niece must have walked 2 miles and then climbed all over the playground too. They have an insane amount of energy for such little people.

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