I’ve posted about my defiant toddler many times before but I’m really at a loss now. She deliberately disobeys. Like, she knows what “no” means and if she’s doing something she knows she’s not supposed to I can ask “do you want to go in timeout?” And she’ll answer “no” and SOMETIMES stop.. I can’t take her anywhere cause she refuses to listen. She runs wild, screams, throws tantrums etc. At home she’s just as bad and absolutely nothing I do or say helps. Timeout doesn’t work, hand poppings don’t work, a pop on the butt doesn’t work, I’ve tried getting down to her level and calmly explaining things or trying to make sure she knows that I understand her emotions and things like that but I’m not even kidding when I say nothing works with her. I’m constantly telling her no and even though she knows she’s going to get into trouble she will do it anyways and then cream this blood curdling scream when she does get in trouble. I’ve raided Pinterest for days, write everything down, tried everything I found... idk what else to do. Everyone keeps telling me it’s “terrible twos” or “she’s just strong willed” or that it’s normal for her age and all of that might be true but there’s gotta be some kind of something that will help me teach her to listen to me and such.
So idk if I’m an asshole for thinking this but a girl I used to go to school with is having her 3rd kid and she’s planning a baby shower and she had one with her other two. I feel like a baby shower is something you do with ur first pregnancy. I live far from my family so I didn’t have one but i did have a baby registry and I’m not even doing that with this pregnancy. Idk I just feel like 3 baby showers is a lot! Especially when she gets things handed to her. Idk maybe I’m an ass for thinking that
So pediatrician wants me to give her a table of mirlax everyday until she’s regulated I rathe do it a natural way so she’s not depending on that. She doesn’t eat veggie like refuses so I make her green smoothies daily, I just got her pear juice & She drinks a lot of water... what other ways can I get her moving I mean it’s only been 2 days & she just got over a virus
is it wrong to be frustrated that my daughter acts like she can't do certain things with out my help. she plays dumb a lot and I wish I could be like no girl show what you know. she acts like she can't trace or match shapes so shes ask for "mommy finger" to help her so I barely hold her hand and she magically can do it but if I dont hold her hand she just scribbles and acts like she doesnt know the pic is how she traces when I'm "helping her" otherwise it'll just be scribbles all over the page
Is anyone else in the stage where they’re kid likes to hit?? Today at the doctors my daughter smacked my face!! I grabbed her hand and said no! And she hit me with the other one!! 🤦🏻 ♀ 🤦🏻 ♀ I have no clue what else to do! She’s with my mom on the days I work and I think that’s the problem! My s.o tells me not to raise my voice. All I can do is cry!! I feel like she doesn’t want to listen. She knows the word” NO” sometimes she’ll even look at me while doing something. As soon as I say no. She’ll do it! I don’t hit her so that’s not a option and I don’t spank her! At her age I don’t think that’ll teach her much. And she doesn’t witness people hitting others in my home. Advice anyone ??
Candace·
Мама сына (1 год), беременна (34 нед.)
And your pedi won’t listen and get her into a specialist!? First off, I would find a new ped, ASAP! And second of all, I commend you and give you soooo many props for noticing this! Even if it’s nothing, most parents can’t see that something might be different about their child.
But I think getting a different ped that will listen to you and actually take the time to spend with your daughter to see if there are concerns to be had
3Divas&2Kings·
Definitely get a new pediatrician. I had a similar problem with my daughter’s old pediatrician and I switched her. She kept ignoring my concerns. They sent her to see a specialist and they said she has Selective Mutism disorder. I’ve never heard of it prior to my daughter. But it’s everything she was experiencing. She still has anxiety where she shuts down but she has gotten better with my help, therapy, and the help of the school.
mary·
@candacelouise, thank you . She recommended I take my daughter to a psychologist because a lot of it seems a lot of it is in her head . There’s a lot of another things she does. Thank you we’ve notice some small things . Her teacher is awesome the last parent conference she gave us information on neurologist/ developmental pediatrician to help with her iep kindergarten placement for next year.