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[quote=Anonymous]My hardest 2 yo (of 3 kids) is now my easiest (and my one with no dx) at 10 yo, so there may be some hope. I did not put her in daycare as a baby/toddler bc she just screamed all the time and I was worried someone would shake her. In retrospect, I wish I had put her in daycare/ preschool a lot earlier - she needed (still needs) a LOT of stimulation.  Also, my relationship with her got better when I went back to work and was not with her 24-7. She started full time preschool a little over 2 yo and to this day loves school. She is also still stubborn and pushes buttons, but we are firm with her. I am thankful for DH, because sometimes one of us gets to the end of our rope, or gets tempted to give into something, and the other will kind of swoop in.

We still reminisce about the year where she didn't eat dinner. She literally went a year without eating dinner (unless we happened to have breakfast for dinner) because she didn't like dinner foods. So she just went to bed without eating and then had a monster breakfast the next day. Now she eats everything.

Similarly, with sleeping, we got to the point where we just put her on a different floor, turned off the monitor, put white noise in our room, said good night, and that was it. She still screamed all night long, which was stressful since I worried something was wrong with her, but at least I was able to sleep myself and function better the next day.

My oldest was a dream at restaurants, in the airplane, in the car- I couldn't believe parents who used screens with their kids. She would just sit and color or look out the window. Well, now she has inattentive ADHD and has some executive challenge functions and social challenges. These things can evolve.
 
As your 2 yo gets closer to her 3rd bday, I would recommend 123 magic for discipline. [/quote]

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