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AHHHHHHHHH - I can understand why people SMACK!!

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LittleSarah · 19/04/2006 19:59

The one thing my 2 yr old daughter was previously good at was going to bed... this past week she just won't. She screams and screams and screams, until I want to scream louder and longer in her little red face!!!

I have that awful knot of tension and I just hate that child right now! Oh. Please. Shut. Up. PLEASE.

To make it worse she is now waking up earlier too, so I am f**king knackered.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Now, I shall go and stand outside the door pondering whether to go in and sooth her or smother her.

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drosophila · 19/04/2006 20:01

Leave her. have a glass of wine or something and try and ignore her.

Waswondering · 19/04/2006 20:02

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jmum6 · 19/04/2006 20:02

lol

sorry shouldn't laugh, it's the image of you pondering at her door.

I can't help, my ds is only 8mths so all this is still to come I'm afraid.

Mercy · 19/04/2006 20:04

Keep away from the door - go as far away as you can. At 2 she's old enough for you to leave her for a (longish) while

Mega sympathy! It is hard!

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LittleSarah · 19/04/2006 20:09

Thanks guys, I will leave her, just spent the last 10 minutes putting batteries in old baby night light I haven't used in about a year... she looked delighted until I left the room... what is worst is occasionally she stops screaming and just calls 'mummy' really sweetly...

Right glass of wine it is. Wish I had a bigger house (but I may have seem ear muffs somewhere. Seriously).

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LittleSarah · 19/04/2006 20:24

STILL SCREAMING.....

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Ledodgy · 19/04/2006 20:27

Someone once said to me that at this age they're like a dripping tap...Drip, drip, drip , drip all day it's like torture you have my sympathy. I also have a clingy 21 week old too so the drips just get louder and my headache gets more painful i'm going to join you in a glass of wine..SIGH.

soapbox · 19/04/2006 20:33

There is a saying that I repeat to myself like a Mantra at times like this 'They most need my attention when they least deserve it'!

Try it, see if it works for you:)

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LittleSarah · 19/04/2006 20:43

Ahhhh... I am confused soapbox... does that mean I should give her attention?? Only half a glass of wine too...

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LittleSarah · 19/04/2006 20:48

Oh... oh... oh... do we have silence?

Fingers crossed.

(Now off to read some Christopher Green in preparation for tomorrow night - oh no! Her dad will be having her! Ah ha ha ha ha HA!)

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