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I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I’ve always wanted to be a mom, and it was going great but holy sh... idk what happened. 
My girl will be 20 months in 3 days, she’s been impossible. Whines ALL day, anything I do is no, even things she loves to do. Put a shirt on, no. Let’s wash your teeth, no. Let’s change diaper, no. Bedtime and naptime are a struggle again. 
I try to do activities with her and she does them for a minute. Everything is a battle. My patience is to the limit, I’ve been screaming and I don’t Ike it. 
 
What am I doing wrong. I feel like such a failure. I feel I’m messing her up. 😫😫😫😫😫

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It’s the age they want to see how far you’ll go and what the limits are. My first wasn’t as bad about getting into everything but at this stage my husband had to do a lot of the stepping in because there was no question daddies “NOW” was a lot scarier than mine. And with our second little boy everything is no even to my husband until my husband gets up and starts to walk towards him😂 he’s real brave until then. But as soon as you let go they don’t follow your own rules or keep them to it that’s when they believe it’s okay to run all over you. If you keep up with it they’ll eventually stop and eventually hopefully respect you enough to just listen the first time. But it won’t be the last time she tries to push her boundaries😂 they do it in phases and our oldest is 6 and she still does it(she’s currently doing it) and our 3 year old loves to try to tell us no to doing something we ask of him and our only response is excuse me and he changes his answer. You aren’t failing her it’s just a phase, she’s growing and learning where she stands! Good luck and remember to breathe😂

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They’re starting to exercise their independence right now, so it’s not only you, and it’s absolutely frustrating. Deep breaths!

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It’s so hard right now.... give yourself some grace. We are all trying our best. They don’t mean to be little tyrants they are trying to assert their will and we are trying to do the same. It’s so hard. Sometimes I tell mussels that also “you wanted this...” doesn’t make it less hard. I also have a 5 month old and I feel guilty and failure by sometimes feeling resentful because everything is a struggle. We love our babies, we are good to our babies, we will all be ok

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You are not a failure and you are NOT alone!! I was just crying to my husband a few minutes ago because I said I feel like my baby is gone, he's a little tyrant now and I feel like we don't have a good bond anymore because he's crazy, hyper, throwing tantrums, whining, etc. My kid is gone and been replaced by a hellion and I'm so sad. You're doing great though mama, this is all normal! They're almost 2 🙈

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