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Terrible 3’s? Had enough!!! : Mum2ET wrote:terrible 3's...

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:12:04 +0000

Author: Mama2two
Subject: 37194
Posted: 20�December�2010 at 9:12pm

Mum2ET wrote:

terrible 3's -YES. Never had a trouble with the terrible 2's but the moment she hit 3�Since then I had often had people comment that 3 is harder than 2. We don't have problems with hiting etc (thank goodness), but its more getting�her to�listen and do what we ask, and the awful tantrums (over the most smallest thing).

OMG, I could have written this reply! Sam's ears are purely for decoration I am sure. She had time out 4 times today for not listening, once for pushing over her little brother and another time for telling me 'NO, you do it yourself!" when i asked her to tidy up her toys!
'Sigh' .....where did my lovely little girl go

If it helps, all the kids I know around the same age seem to be going through a bit of all of this at the moment. Maybe its the time of year or something

Edited to add - Sam goes to Baptist Kindy but came home with the worst language I have ever heard come out of her mouth last week! I was dumbfounded! Plus all the kids at Kindy seem to be fighting, talking back and being generally feral at the moment - so I am leaning more and more towards time of year and being 3!

Edited by Mama2two

Terrible 3’s? Had enough!!! : terrible 3's -YES. Never...

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:54:07 +0000

Author: Mum2ET
Subject: 37194
Posted: 20�December�2010 at 8:54pm

terrible 3's -YES. Never had a trouble with the terrible 2's but the moment she hit 3 Since then I had often had people comment that 3 is harder than 2. We don't have problems with hiting etc (thank goodness), but its more getting her to listen and do what we ask, and the awful tantrums (over the most smallest thing).

Sorry can't think of anything else other that what you have mentioned, but basically just wanted to say it is nothing that you are doing wrong.....its just an age thing.

Terrible 3’s? Had enough!!! : Anyone else going through the...

Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:10:23 +0000

Author: MummyFreckle
Subject: 37194
Posted: 20�December�2010 at 5:10pm

Anyone else going through the terrible 3's? His behaviour seems to be getting worse not better - not all the time, but especially around other children. He gets very defensive and aggressive if another child (of a similar age) comes near him when he is playing, whereever he is playing or god forbid tries to take a toy from him. He has starting hitting and biting a lot, and nothing we seem to do or say is making him stop. We have tried instant time out, removal of toys / rewards, removing him from the situation (ie taking him straight home if at park or somewhere fun) but nothing seems to sink in and the behaviour isnt changing.

I should stress that he has very good language skills for his age, so he is perfectly capable of communicating with words (which just makes it even more frustrating).

We have a zero tolerance for biting, hitting etc in our house (and towards other people), but just running out of will power and ideas to manage it.

He goes to preschool 3 mornings a week and they havent noticed a problem, but I think that there is so much to do there that they kind of all leave each other alone to a certain extent.

Why cant he play with kids his own age nicely like other kids? Have I done something really wrong?

Help?!!?!?!