Please tell me it gets better after 3 😭
I love my daughter so much, she is my entire world. But lord do I need some reassurance right now.
Ever since my daughter turned 3 she respects literally no authority but her own, she’s combative about literally everything, if we tell her no she screams like she’s being murdered, she throws things, she hits, she destroys her own toys, she destroys my stuff any chance she gets. She will find and open my makeup just to destroy it even when I hide it from her. She will climb on things to grab stuff she knows she shouldn’t have and usually it’s my stuff that becomes her victim (she cut up my Pokemon cards last week too) I feel like she destroys my stuff every day, I’ve tried so hard to set boundaries, to teach her what is and isn’t acceptable and it just goes in one ear and out the other.
I’ve tried asking her why and it’s just because she wants to. I’ve tried time out, confiscating her toys (often times to save them from her destroying them in a rage) but nothing seems to be helping with her behaviour at all. She will have meltdowns that last an hour where she’s just inconsolable and we can’t calm her down. Bedtime feels like a war zone every night, she will fight sleep until she’s wound up and overstimulated and just crashes out. Me and my partner are so exhausted, and at a loss really on what to do at this point, we don’t fight with each other so it’s not even like this is behaviour that she’s seeing and mimicking.
Since having her I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD, hEDS, fibromyalgia and ME/CFS I also have autism (confirmed by multiple psychiatrists) and the only reason I don’t have a diagnosis is because there’s no one where I live who can do the assessment for adults. My health is just deteriorating which is just making it extra hard to cope with the constant naughtiness, back talking, screaming and destruction.
Thanks for reading my really long vent