terrible 2's I need some advice

Riley will be 2 next month. lately she when we tell her to go to something for say we are done playing with that or we are going inside now or if she falls and DH comes to get her or help her she starts screaming No Dada go away!!! we know she gets frustrated but poor DH is so upset when she does it. We try talking to her etc but again she will be 2 next month. We try to explain that yelling at Dada is not nice and it hurts his feeling. What can we do how can we nip this in the bud?

Thanks if you got this far I hope to hear I'm not alone

Re: terrible 2's I need some advice

The only way to completely avoid this is to lock her in a tower until she's 4 or 5....

Just do a search in here on "terrible 2s", and you'll see that just about all of us have been through it. Just stay consistent, and it will pass.... eventually....

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Re: terrible 2's I need some advice

Posted by GoldenRod

The only way to completely avoid this is to lock her in a tower until she's 4 or 5....

Just do a search in here on "terrible 2s", and you'll see that just about all of us have been through it. Just stay consistent, and it will pass.... eventually....

Re: terrible 2's I need some advice

Two year olds have something in their mind and if you do something different than what they hoped, they are never happy.

Maybe try playing up the next thing you are going to do, to make the transition exciting. I sometimes prepare my girls way before I have to. For instance, a merry go round. I tell my dds it's going to end soon and after we are going to do xyz (something they also like)...so the "ending" isn't as sudden and final ?

As for "yelling" just keep telling her to say sorry because yelling isn't something we do (and hold her accountable for the "sorry")

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Does Jeff have much alone time with her? With Will, it really helps him to have time alone with each of us, so that it isn't that he's going to one person over the other.

I thought this was going to be about the jumping, screaming tantrums that we're going through right now.

Re: terrible 2's I need some advice

Posted by nov04libride

Does Jeff have much alone time with her? With Will, it really helps him to have time alone with each of us, so that it isn't that he's going to one person over the other.

I thought this was going to be about the jumping, screaming tantrums that we're going through right now.

Re: terrible 2's I need some advice

Posted by NoStressBride

Posted by nov04libride

Does Jeff have much alone time with her? With Will, it really helps him to have time alone with each of us, so that it isn't that he's going to one person over the other.

I thought this was going to be about the jumping, screaming tantrums that we're going through right now.

no jump scream as of yet Beth lol I will be having Jeff spend some more time with Riley its just hard because we are always doing something around the house and Jeff is either outside so I try to keep her away so he can work.

Re: terrible 2's I need some advice

Posted by nov04libride

Posted by NoStressBride

Posted by nov04libride

Does Jeff have much alone time with her? With Will, it really helps him to have time alone with each of us, so that it isn't that he's going to one person over the other.

I thought this was going to be about the jumping, screaming tantrums that we're going through right now.

no jump scream as of yet Beth lol I will be having Jeff spend some more time with Riley its just hard because we are always doing something around the house and Jeff is either outside so I try to keep her away so he can work.

I think that will help--try to give them a day alone, just them, so that she needs to go to him for anything. She's probably used to him taking a backseat, KWIM?