Ok y’all best tips and tricks to surviving the terrible twos. My son has gotten the worst attitude lately. Two prime examples last night we were coming up the stairs I had put a toy on the stairs the previous night as punishment. He saw the toy immediately picked it up. Here’s how the conversation went.

Niko: “mine”

Me: “yes papi it’s yours. Can mamma please hold it so you can grab the key for her.”

Niko: now crying “no mine.. mine.”

Me: now taking the toy “yes it’s yours and you can have it back soon as we get in the house. Can you grab the key please, help momma and grab the key.”

Niko: now hitting me “MINE.....MINE.....MINE...”

This morning

Literally eyes have been open for maybe 5 minutes

Niko: grabs my phone “Dinos?”

Me: “go in the living room and find your dad he can put Dinos on the big tv.”

Niko: now crying “no mine.....DINOS!!!”

Me: “yes you can watch Dinos. Please go in the living room and ask your dad to put them on the tv.”

Niko: now hitting me “no mine....mine no”

He grabs the key every time we come home so that wasn’t an impossible task to ask him. And every morning he lets him self out of bed and goes and finds his dad and his dad sets up his shows and starts breakfast knowing he’s up. I’m not a morning person and usually stay in bed for another hour on my phone. So again wasn’t a weird this the first time I’m telling him no. He never gets my phone in the morning.

He’s always been a very defiant kid and we have used hand slaps before in the past he calls them pow pow, a good example of what I’m trying to explain. I came into the kitchen and saw his cup on the floor juice everywhere and started yelling. He said pow pow and tapped my hand. I said “you know Papi sorry for yelling right away accidents happen. Help momma clean up the mess.” And he’s gotten down and helped me clean the mess. Very calm, and I never had a problem with him “hitting” when it was like that because it was something we had done to him. But now the hitting is just angry punching my face kicking pulling hair. Over what because I said he had to wait a minute.

And yes I know he’s a 2 year old boy, my first, only and last baby. The youngest of 6, the baby of the family. So yes I know spoiled 2 year olds are hell. But like how do we have it to the other side with our sanity. Please and thank you for all the advice.