No ears...

I have had Paris and Ayja both home for the last 2 days as i had days off. well, me and Paris have been consistently at each other. boy does she get on my nerves!! what a bossy brat she has sturned into. argh! mike came home to me crying at lunch time .. at the point of frustration. I have no idea where she has gotten her little mouthy mouth but argh, it's like having a teenager!

We get the starving thing.. constantly... after breakfast,(she has a plate of cereal as big as mine, or weetbix - 2 of them plus milk plus fruit plus a drink) "i'm starving", "can i have something to eat on the way to daycare" an hour after brekkie "is it morning tea yet?" when we pick her up from daycare "what's for tea tonight?" is the first thing we get.. not hello, not yay, and hugs.. just "what's for dinner, when's dinner" when she wakes from a sleep.. the first thing she wan'ts is a snack, and not a little one.. a big huge snack, of which she will eat all off, and then go on to moan that she wants dinner. all she does all day is want to eat.. i think that's where we clash, cos i think she should not, i am fine with the 3 meals plus 2 snacks a day.. but she has all those and wants more, far more than any child, growing like a weed or not, should have at her age. when mike is here he grazes, all day, and the kids graze with him cos they want everything anyone else has, it drives me insane! ARGH VENT!

no, just her mouth is getting me angry.. wanted a video this morning, i told her as soon as i had finished my breakfast i would put one on, mike texd me, i was still eating but wrote a tex back, and ihad her sitting at her table, slapping her hands and pouting (you know.. the i want you to notice that i'm pouting and angry at you.. kinda pout) she yells at me, just eat your breakfast man, hurry up!

Sorry, venting having a bad day with a 3 going on 15 yr old... they are asleep, for now, hopefully the day will get better once they wake up.. what's left of it anyway. Might chuck em outside to terrorize the bunnies.

I've got one that won't listen. We are trying to tell Andrew to take his listening ears out of his pockets (when he has pockets - don't know what to do when he doesn't have pockets) and put them on where his ears should be and turn them one. Has worked so far so here's hoping it continues.

I just have to ask, is anyone else getting the constant whinging/bursting into tears all the time when things don't go their way? I feel like all I do is complain about her, she is a sweetie most of the time but this stage is really difficult at the moment

Andrew will do that sometimes and will also tell us he has a sore tummy when he is told off.

Mel, sounds like you have a chatterbox too..maybe it is an Ella thing hehe

The repeating everything over and over is sooooo annoying sometimes! like if you answer a straight 'yes' or 'no' to them it isn't enough, they often like you to repeat the whole sentence back to them all part of learning I guess!

I have another non-listener! And the thing that annoys me is that she knows with 100% certainty that I always follow through. If I ask her to do something and she walks away or pretends she doesn't hear she gets one more chance or gets timed out until shes ready to do it and she STILL ignores me almost every time! I think its just them exerting their independence- which doesn't help at all but at least explains it.

Shes an arguer too. She gets me so fired up and she argues far too well for a little person. She'll be a picture of calm and I'll be losing the plot and I stop and think "but I'm the adult!".

Ah Kat, after seeing the balloon incident today and reading these posts... I understand what I am getting myself into so much more!
Ella is a lovely kiddliwink... I can vouch for that!

Sometimes the only way I can get through the day with my lovely little mongrel is to just put her bad behaviour down to something physiological. She tantied up a storm just after everyone left her party today... so I just repeated to myself "she's exhausted, just get her into bed" and it stopped me from screaming when she wouldn't lie down to put her nappy on because she was too busy screeching.