Threenager/terrible 3s

Someone give me some hope 🙄

We have always been very consistent with my daughter and discipline, expectations, as well as giving her freedom to explore and have fun and make mistakes and she has always been extremely well behaved. She has always tested things and always had a strong willed side but we’ve parented through it. Since turning three it’s like she exploded into this threenager that wants nothing more than to turn every single thing into a battle allllll dayyyy long. Covid and staying home more makes it worse, and we have a newborn. I know she wants attention all day and ultimately she gets a LOT of attention and I make sure she gets alone time, praise, etc. and she really loves her new sibling. Shows no animosity except maybe some passive aggressive snuggling sometimes. But it’s literally all day the battles, if I’m having a less than “active” day around the house with her then she is just terrorizing the house and turning going to pee, going down for nap, even getting ready to go do something fun into a battle. She doesn’t care about anything getting taken away usually which probably means she has too much stuff. But I feel like she just doesn’t care about any punishment half the time. It’ll work in the moment then she’s back to it an hour later. It’s worse because she is in a sleep regression and tired all the time. She gets plenty of time outside, no screen time other than tv and we do keep time limits. I will not spank her and ultimately I don’t think it would make a difference because I feel like she just wants my or her dads individual attention a majority of the day because she isn’t getting the stimulation she used to when we were out and about going to children’s places and I just don’t have the capacity to do it alllll day every single day when I’m so tired all the time. We really do a lot and I try to keep her in routine. Please tell me that with consistency this phase will pass 😩 she is SUCH a sweet, good kid and so so smart. But it’s like a little sour patch kid when she puts her mind to it she can be a terror.