Im starting to feel like a failure as a mom. Very recently my three (well, 2 and 11 month) year old started being very uncontrollable. He has learned how to take down his gates so he has free rein of the house and constantly pulls things out of cabinets, finds something to use as a stool and gets on the counters, will NOT go to bed, is hitting and yelling… Im going crazy! we spank, we use time out, we take away toys and nothing is working! bed time is the worst, he wont stay in his room and it’s gotten to the point where we’ll just lock him our room with us and he’ll run around and jump on our bed while we sleep, sometimes until 2 in the morning (he only naps from 2-4??). Im finding myself getting so frustrated I’ll sometimes get rough with him by grabbing his arm or pushing him out of the kitchen and I hate being like that. please give me advice! tell me this is stage and he’ll turn back into an angel soon, or tell me how I can prevent some of this. If I make myself sound like a bad parent and you feel the need to tell me that please don’t bother, I already feel like crap. Thanks for the help!

I just had to discipline one of my twins because she was messing with my remote sensor bar for my WII. She brought her chair in front of the TV to get to it.

I made her sit in time out and when she was done I told her why she was in time out and she wasn’t looking at me. She was looking all over the place but at me so I said:

"Are you listening?"

she said:

"I listening."

I had to quickly send her away and as soon as she turned the corner I put my face on the floor and just started cracking up. She was so funny the way she said it.

"I listening."

I have a really hard time sometimes keeping my composure because she is so FLIPPIN’ CUTE! She is only 2.

okay,
my 3 year old son goes to my mom’s during the day for his daycare because i can not afford day care for him and his sister since he turned 3 he has been acting out all day when i am gone jumping on the furniture , walking on the kitchen table, breaking toys, saying things to her like i don’t have to when she puts him in the corner for time out he laughs at her and tells her she is funny …now my mom has a bad back and can not chase him but he gets out the front door no matter how many locks you have on the door and runs away and thinks it funny …i’v tried taking away all his toys, i’v took away the T.V shows he likes, he has been all they way down to only getting meals and water to drink because i told him that little boys that act up don’t get the good stuff to eat ..and my mom backs me up on everything i say but it’s not working he has gotten so bad when he is over there that my dad says that if i don’t get him undercontroll he can’t come back …please help