My 3 y/o is driving me batty. He's yelling, saying no, hitting, not being nice to the baby, and other things that are just driving me nuts. I try not to yell, I do the time out or in his room thing and don't get emotional about it (most of the time). I just can't take it anymore. It gets to the point where I don't even want to be around him b/c he doesn't listen and does things on purpose all the while looking at me. He has been pretty much like this since he's 18 months, but it has progressively gotten worse. I am at the end of my rope. I have tried tons of discipline techniques, read books, you name it. I don't want to yell; I don't want to fight. I just want him to listen to me. I try giving choices. I try giving consequences. It just is not working. He is making me really tired, and I have his older and younger bros to still take care of. UGH!!! It is so frustrating. I never had it this badly with my first son. He did it for maybe a few months and then he was done. ARGH!
Thanks for letting me vent!
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I hope you are right!
Quoting CrazedMomof2:Yeah, that can be a hard age. Just stick with 1 thing. It will take time but eventually he will get it!
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I don't have suggestions other than what you have tried already. Here are some ((hugs)).
Aw, thanks :)
Quoting Bmat:I don't have suggestions other than what you have tried already. Here are some ((hugs)).
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Quoting Bmat:
I don't have suggestions other than what you have tried already. Here are some ((hugs)).
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Quoting CrazedMomof2:
Yeah, that can be a hard age. Just stick with 1 thing. It will take time but eventually he will get it!
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I would stick with the sitting on bed alone. Works well here.
I do the room thing, but he won't sit on his bed. I can hardly get him to sit for a time out. He gets out of the chair, goes behind it and sits. I don't fuss about that too much b/c he's still just sitting there doing nothing. He's very defient and likes to do the exact opposite of what I ask him.
Quoting AM-BRAT:I would stick with the sitting on bed alone. Works well here.
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My (almost) three year old is like that. You remember that poem "there was a little girl/with a little curl/right in the middle of her forehead/when she was good/she was very, very, good/when she was bad, she was horrid?" That's her to the letter. Granted, she's better off being left alone when she is in a mood-and it seems to me that I am the only one who gets that, lol. Ohter people in my house like to get her riled up-and when they go too far, SHE is supposed to get punished.
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- bhwrn1
on Mar. 21, 2010 at 9:51 PM