Can we please have a "POUNCE AND GRIND" section?

[FrannyandZooey]

as suggested by Lucykate?

With subsections:

Throw Yourselves to The Baying Mob Here

Yes You Are Being Unreasonable You Evil Hag

and

If You Want Support Then BabyWorld is Over That Way

No you are really barking, now. I really have no opinion of him and if I said I did it was for comedy purposes (I don't actually have many opinions that are not just to amuse myself, you know)

cod's style is not about spelling, she can spell, she can also type, but only when it matters

I am Not On the Cider Tonight. Will probably be back on it tomorrow.

Have had a rough day, though, DS2 is tantrumming a lot right now, and I am struggling, tbh.

High point: he was furious because I was making him leave somewhere. So he picked up a handful of bark chippings, so when I picked him up, he flung them in my face.

Or maybe the high point was sitting on the pavement holding onto his arms so he would stop hitting me?

did you do the 5 min warnign before you planned to leave

"when it matters" = when she needs to fool us. But yes. She can spell.

Oh dear am sorry about the bark

Ds is just getting over a cold and is really quite vile

if you tell him not to do something he says "but I am a bit poorly aren't I mummy?"

I thought you were cidered up, you are certainly frisky, and quick on the draw

No.

My knitted had gone wrong, so I was totally ignoring him while he played out of my sight. Which I felt badly for, but i really had to fix the knitting.

Didn't give warning.

Wasn't really a very good parent today at all - too tired.

But to be fair, he tantrummed on waking up because ... because I didn't come fetch him fast enough - I have 30 seconds I think.

He tantrummed in the middle of the night because I wouldn't bring him back to my bed.

He tantrummed over leaving the slide (very very badly). He was apologetic later, at least. But good god when he goes off the rails, he really goes. His brother was nothing like this.

He sounds tired.

No, when cidered up, I am sillier. I forget what I did last night, but I was certainly sillier.

He's very tired! But he won't sleep in the day, not even in the pram. And he gets, at most, 12 hours at night. He's not really eating enough, and is a totaly PITA about food, won't try new things, absolutely refuses.

I need to stay calm, and maybe chat to the playleader, she had a very good talk with him on Monday about biting (he got me on the inner thigh, again ) and she took him away and discussed teeth with him for ages, showed him how sharp his were, by looking in the mirror, and got him to agree to only bite food. She is an absolute bloody wizard.

Ah you are having a rough time

You don't think the bite was a kind of sock rage, do you? He may have been trying to bite the socks off your legs?

Maybe he was annoyed that i wasn't wearing the socks?

Seriously, I need to be a tiny bit more patient etc etc. DH is not around a lot at the moment. I am hanging out with various people and mostly being mellow.

Next week will be Hard, though - am home alone with the two kids for four days, and have only booked an eye appointment. Have lots of vague 'hang out' plans, but nothing concrete.

I will need to do lots of deep breathing.

Although, to be fair, DS1 was a star on Tuesday afternoon when I was weary, I said 'I will make the cake you want, if you keep DS2 out of my hair', and DS1 did a pretty good job.

It all sounds pretty taxing, for whatever reason.

Buy more socks.

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I expect it to improve lots when he can talk better. He's just nowhere near as good at talking as his brother was at this age.

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Ah, no, DS2 isn't quite like that. He listens really well most of the time, and is generally really easy. But when he loses his temper, about anything, he becomes completely impossible. Big big tantrums, lots of hitting. When he's in a tantrum, if you can work out what he wanted in the first place, and offer it to him, he'll scream at you for even trying.

(The biting is separate a bit, and is mostly done out of impishness/attention-seeking.)

If our nursery manager is on today I may ask her for tips ... although tbh a lot of the traditional toddler-wrangling tricks (offer a choice of two! distract!) don't work at all on him.

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