My H and I were just asking each other, "What are we doing wrong? Why is he like this?" I showed him this post and he goes, "It's a stage? It's normal? Hallelujah! When does he turn 4 again?"
It's exhausting. More than anything, it's discouraging. On days when her behavior is out of control I feel like a failure. It's also tough because (especially after a thread like this) I know I'm not alone and this is just a difficult age, but I worry that a lot of her acting out is due to my divorce and behaviors she picked up from XH. Hang in there mamas:)
I asked H on Saturday night if he thought everyone's life was as chaotic as ours, if life is a shitshow for everyone with 2 kids, and if he thought everyone else's 3 year olds were awful a lot.
I'm really hoping things calm down in a year or 2. It has to right?
Hugs! Blake is only bad for me (well for the most part) and it drives freaking nuts. He will be having a great day at school, and when I show up to pick him up he will run and throw mulch at another kid, hit two more, and run out the gate into the parking lot. It is exhausting and embarrassing. He would never pull that shit if Jeff was picking him up.
Baby Chocotaco has also turned into a demon spawn lately. Three sucks so hard,and people warn you, but you laugh it off. My sweet little child has made me want to walk into oncoming traffic more than once lately.
When I was 8 months pregnant I had to ask an employee to catch her in a store because she would not stop running from me. I then got to carry her out kicking and screaming. Luckily she stopped running away after Henry was born, no clue why, but unfortunately no other annoying behaviors have ended.