Meltdown central

Mine is the same only wanting me not her dad! We haven’t managed to get round that yet, I’ve read being confident in your partner helps and not hesitating when they kick off, but sometimes she just won’t have it so I have to do it. But we just keep trying and saying I know you don’t want daddy to do it but he has to sometimes etc! Sometimes it works. Regarding the strong emotions, I’ve found giving her choices helps like: ‘do you want to get yourself undressed or mummy do it?’ ‘Do you want to walk to the car or be carried?’ ‘Do you want to read a book or go to bed’ etc.. she’ll normally choose to take control herself but it gets her through the transition. They’ve got some big emotions at this age, it’s like a storm in their brain they just can’t control it! Meals are also not great for us but she always eats breakfast, eats a ton of fruit and usually eats everything at nursery so I’m not too concerned about that 😅

@Rebecca it's so hard isn't it! No matter what we try its just only mummy that's good enough! Giving choices is a good idea I'll give that a try thank you. My little girl always eats breakfast and then basically survives the rest of the day on fruit, wotsits and occasional yoghurt!

Bedtime is a struggle for us, as soon as we even mention to go upstairs she’ll start crying and say “no sleepy” majority of the time she goes upstairs crying and we need to settle her before trying to put her down. She’s quite strong minded so even if I give her a choice she wants to stick to what she wants to do so it can be challenging at times. With brushing teeth you could try allowing her to brush them herself and then you can finish off to make sure it’s done properly, we also went through a struggle brushing her teeth but now that’s seemed to pass, she’ll let me brush her teeth because she knows she gets to do it aswell after and then she likes to wash her own hands and face