Terrible 2s!!!!!

Ok I'm stumped! No cure for terrible 2s? Afraid not! Its the hardest phase yet! The screaming when she dosn't get her way, the hitting! UGH!

So I'm making myself a promise. To be understanding and as imposible it seems as patient as I can. This is the time where your child has so much more mobility. They're walking at a faster pace, hands are grasping more efficently, etc.

Before this point they relyed only on you, their parents/gardians to get around to feed them and all that jazz. They didn't know huge pain as result to choices they made. They only knew hungrey, dirty and sleepy. So they don't know right/wrong safe/danger. They don't get why they can't take a handleful of toys out of a store, they don't get that climbing on the table could result to some of the worse pain imaginable, and why is this stupid lifevest nessisary???? They also get bored of the toys, why play with this when that shinny glass red bowl is just sitting up there untouched?

I need to remind myself that being the parent I KNOW these things and I have to remove her and distract her from harm and wrong choices rather then be the type of parents who screams and hits back at their children (especially in public! I hate when parents do that it just adds to the maddness). Or be the type to calmly keep saying "Michelle, NO Michelle come here come here come here don't touch, no don't touch" Those words seem pointless when they now have the abbility to go on without their parents help. "Why should I listen? They'll still be there loving me." It might throw a wrench in my plans and until she's older it won't cure her terrible 2s but it is what I CAN DO as her mom. A stiff strawberry smoothy also helps, and playdates I must say it keeps her focused on other kids and toys.