Terrible toddler days

Ok, so this is the second post I've read by you and you have a brilliant sense of humour. Thanks. It really does make a difference when you get humorous responses. Duct tape doesn't sound like a bad idea at all. BTW in the short lapse between writing the post and now he has poured my coffee out all over the floor. He's like lightning... turned my back for a second. And I find it amusing when I reprimand him how he starts crying for his daddy. Go figure! Count down to bedtime has begun but the clock is ticking way too slowly!!! I keep telling myself tomorrow will be better - it has to be!

Haha - I'm in quite the mode tonight apparently. lol Sorry to hear about your coffee... he was just trying to help. Its too late in the day for coffee... you'll be up all night. Just a suggestion - for a little while, I tied the legs of my chairs to the table... that way, Jos couldn't move the chairs around to get on the counter. Since I have a little hellian as well, and she will NOT do time out on the couch or anywhere, we reversed the door knob on her door. She gets put in her room and if she wants to keep coming out the door gets locked so she can't. It may sound cruel, but I keep an ear out, as well as peek thru her window to make sure she's safe. For awhile after we started that she'd rip all the clothing out of her drawers, or take her pants off and pee on the floor. Although annoying and slightly disgusting, MUCH more manageable to her ripping the entire house apart. The just the other week I told her she could either do as mommy says or go to her room... and she replies with (she's 3 remember) "fine, I'll go to my room and watch a movie" "OH NO YOU WON'T" I shouted! Time outs are NO LONGER movie time!! Boy was a dork for not catching onto that! haha So when its time out time, all movies come out of her room - we don't hae cable, so tv's not a problem. After...oh, 6 months or so of the door locking thing we're good. We hardly ever have to turn the lock anymore and she hands me the movies for time out. I've asked her if she'd prefer to take time out on the couch or kitchen chair and she's informed me that she likes to sit on her bed and figure out why she was mean. She hardly ever comes flying back out of the room - she only turns the knob to see if we've locked the door or not and then goes about her business.... But then a night like tonight (its 2 am where i live haha) she kept coming out ofh er room and broke a picture of mine, all I had to do was look at her and she looked at me and said "you have to lock the door now huh? will you at least tuck me in now?" haha I love the little relationship Jos and I have. Its not always the most stress-free... but I guarantee you, anything you do on a regular basis WILL begin to work int he field of discipline. Not 100% guarantee EVERYtime... but who the hell gets that kind of guarantee anyway? Parents would be the last person on the list. I'd seriously set that 2 year old of yours down. He may not explain a lot of big words, but he'll understand being told no and punished. Oh - and maybe out of my better judgement. I never make Joslynn apologize for any of her bad behaviour. I make her state why she was in time out and ask her if it was good or bad to do what she did... most of the time she just lowers her head and apologizes for being mean... or calls the daycare lady that she was mean to and apologizes. :) Oh my am I rambling or what. haha I'll shut up now. I have no idea what point i was trying to make. haha

P.s. don't take the duct tape comment too lightly. I used to duct tape Joslynn's diapers on her at night time b/c she'd throw a fit at bedtime... AND I've tied her to the kitchen chair with a belt so she'd sit with my husband and I for dinner whether she wanted to or not. I'm so evil.... mwahahahaha

Hi again! Well my daughter had the terrible two for a few months and it recently just went away.. Now I have a happy two year old! Thank God! I just hope that the same happens to you! I know that it feels so horrible! Good luck!

You are lucky. I can't wait for that day to come (if it ever comes). It has to get a bit easier.

Oh if only I could do the walk outside thing... he runs away. It's like setting a wild animal free. He hates the leash so it doesn't even help. If I do take him out on his bike then it's a screaming match when we get back home again. And running errands is out of the question. I do not go to the shops without my husband. He might just be having a bad day and then I am the parent all the shoppers are looking at because my child is unruly! Groceries day is a nightmare. My husband takes one trolley with half the list, I take another with the rest of the list and we speed through the shop likes bat out of hell. LOL. He will grow up :)

my bloke wants to wire the toilet seat to the mains to try to stop my son peeing on the seat,he does it all the time no matter how many times i say not to,even if i'm standing there with him he still does it

LOL wire the mains to the toilet seat? That's original. I sometimes have to wonder where their little brains are. My oldest son has to be told the same thing every day... brush your teeth, make your bed, wash your cereal bowl, pack your school lunch... blah, blah, blah. Every day. So I understand your frustration about the toilet seat. I hope you make him clean it - lol.

I have a 10 and 11 year old too and you are right, it doesn't get easier. At least with them I can send them to their rooms, or take away their gaming consoles. With the little one it's an entirely different story. Love the potion making... luckily my son hasn't tried that one yet. Hope yours didn't blow anything up. My son had a bunk bed but would kick the ceiling at bedtime so we took it out his room and replaced it with a military style metal single bed. He was furious but got over it.