In the thick of it lately. Absolutely cracking up with my toddlers behaviour.
It’s just the way it goes from being so pleasant and lovely to absolute hell and tantrums in the space of 2 weeks.
It used to be a bad day here and there, to actually being mostly bad days with a few good ones.
We are 3 and a half. Everything I do is wrong. Everything is a tantrum, everything is exhausting.
I do so much with him. Painting, baking, adventures. We don’t do any screen time. Very rarely we watch a bit of a movie, maybe 45 minutes - 1 hour a month.
I’m giving everything to be the best mother I can, and I feel absolutely broken and exhausted at the moment.
I know it’s fleeting and I know it will pass, but I’m exhausted and need to vent.
Also, I don’t know how to stay calm and patient when I’m on the 8th tantrum of the day because I put a pan away that he wanted to put away. (That is how simple it could be for a tantrum).
I have tried so hard. I’ve tried dealing with them patiently, I’ve tried explaining. I’ve now given up and put him in his room on his own while he’s currently screaming for me. Every part of me wants to go in and comfort him but this is hours of battling. Hours of giving into the cries.
He also deliberately does things he knows he’s not allowed to do, just for a reaction. He wants to fight all the time.
I need this phase to pass because it’s breaking me. He’s also behaving like this wherever we go. I honestly don’t know where it came from. We used to go for dinner together and he’d be great company, I could bring him anywhere. Now even 5 minutes in a coffee shop he’s throwing tantrums because he wants a cookie and running around the table away from me.
He’s being cross with the dogs too. Who are just two gentle souls trying to check on him. He’s shouting and crying at them just if one sniffs him.
Someone tells me it gets better.