Petulant Toddler Stage: Please help!
SD2 1/2 is driving me insane today! She was up at 6am, has been screaming NO! to everything. You ask her to do something (or not to do something) and she just stands there and stares at you. WTF.
She has always been so sweet and while annoying at times, shes never made me want to smack her on the behind as much as I want to today.
Its hard to NOT blame this shift in behavior on BM because I know that she is a toddler therefore she is going to be a brat at times, but this has been happening for the past 2 weeks now and I'm getting sick of it. Timeouts are no longer a threat apparently, she just sits there and giggles.
Parenting tips anyone? And please no "make SO handle it" or "his kid his problem", those of you that "know" me know that that is not valid advice. SO and I are and have always been on the same page parenting wise and where I stand in our family. Thanks 
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My BS is the same exact age.
My BS is the same exact age. He is pretty good for the most part, but has just recently really started getting DH's panties in a bunch. I seriously think he does things because he KNOWS that they bug DH. DH was complaining the other night that BS was hitting him (not in a mean way, BS thinks it's funny) Well he ONLY does this to DH.. why? because it gets a rise out of DH and it's attention. I told DH he needs to follow two simple steps
1. Ignore him
2. if he continues, then re-direct him
redirection works about 98% of the time. Timeouts don't really work with BS2, while he doesn't laugh or anything like that, he just won't stay put and to me it's not even worth the battle, I'd rather redirect him and avoid the time outs all together until he is a little older.
BS2 has been doing this thing, where if you tell him to get out of somewhere or something, he will say no (nicely) and then he'll wave and say "bye bye" all cutsie like and wait for YOU to leave. It's hard not to laugh... they are defininately trying at this age, but also very cute!
SO and I call eachother honey
SO and I call eachother honey so now whenever we tell SD to not do something she'll say "ok honey" but then keep doing it lol. Cute but annoying after awhile
What do you mean by re-direct?
Thanks
Thanks
Redirect her attention to
Redirect her attention to something other than what she is doing that is annoying. So for instance when I saw BS2 starting his hitting on DH the other night, I jumped in and told BS to tell Daddy about the boats we saw at the lake that day, or I point out that the cat is over by the door and tell him to go give the cat a kiss, insert anything here... nobody's brain can focus on 2 things at once, so if BS is focusing on hitting DH, if I can get his little brain to focus on something else, he forgets about the hitting.