Challenging behaviour
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So glad it's not just me, thank you for your responses 🙂 in terms of strategies I use...I try to give her the heads up if we're going somewhere or doing something new, I try to praise the good things I see, I try to set the expectation if we're going somewhere i.e we're going swimming now so I need you to do good listening, give jobs to do (beeping handsets in tesco are brilliant!). If we're in a proper tantrum/highly emotional mode, I try cuddles, reassurance, distraction, ignoring if its bad attention seeking but obviously I intervene when it's going to get unsafe. I find having a 'third' thing in the room helpful so I'll talk to her fav soft toy and the toy 'talks' back to me in my ear. My toddler stops and watches and wants to know what's been said. My toddler is a smart cookie and knows some of the behaviour she is doing is wrong and she's looking to get a rise from either parent which is so hard not to bite when there's other things going on 😣
Does she get 1 on 1 time with you daily? 1 on 1 time, where she gets your focused undivided attention, is like magic.
Yes she gets daily 1:1 time with me and my partner which does help.
oh I feel this so bad... My daughter is 3 and a half and my son is 5 months, it's like reading our own story reading this. What are you trying to solve things? Is anything working? I'm at breaking point with it now, she used to be so loving but now she shouts, screams, doesn't listen. Point blank refuses to go to bed. I go back to work in January and all routine we had beforehand has completely gone out of the window 😢 😭 xx