Two year olds can drive you nuts

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

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Would anyone agree with me that 2 year olds can be destructive as hell?

It's a nightmare, we've had to move and pack away everything from our lounge because Dan has his hands and fingers in everything.. Even my PC has a modded fireguard around it because he broke the DVD drive.

Speaking of which he tried inserting bread into the old VHS player.. Needless to say the picture is a bit grainy :p

Don't get me wrong, i love him to bits but it's hard work.

Has anyone else found this.. What measure have you taken?
 
Got my two nieces staying for Easter (one and three); everything has either been locked away or placed on units more than three feet off the ground.

Damage hasn't been an issue so far, but having to answer 'Why?' to everything is becoming difficult. I'm plumbing the depths of my own knowledge at times and since thay are not my kids, I don't really want to make up ludicrus lies to tell them.
 
Don't have kids myself, but I believe me and my sister were mainly responsible for the demise of my Dad's sound system. He had posh globe speaker units on fairly tall stands that we loved pulling over, apparently. Standard :p
 
2 year olds are hilarious, my godson said my name properly for the first time on Monday, and I could have cried.
He's suddenly started chuntering away in proper sentences and its brilliant.

That said he did take my house keys out of my handbag not long ago, and it wasnt until I got home I realised. He thought the back of his digger was a far better place to keep them :D
 
My 14 month old is going through this phase, just this morning he nearly wiped out my DVD player, xbox 360 and netgear router off the TV stand and onto the floor. Then he turned his attention to the DVD stand and started throwing them all over the living room floor.

Then he got my eldests toy jigsaw, and headed straight for the LCD TV, I had to dive off the sofa and stop him going mental all over it.
 
I think a war zone would be safer. I got cracked over the head on Sunday with a toy hammer, my head is still tender from it.
 
My two year old has now learnt how to say "it's mine" at everything he wants, I have no idea where he got it from but it is not a traight i want to see in him, He also has a fascination with wall plug switches and kept switching all the power off to all of my AV equipment including my Media PC/Server, I have had to change the socket for a switch less one.

Me thinks i have it rather easier than a lot of people though so can't really grumble :D
 
Colbaker said:
He also has a fascination with wall plug switches and kept switching all the power off to all of my AV equipment including my Media PC/Server, I have had to change the socket for a switch less one.
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What is with that, both of mine have had a fascination with wall plug switches.
 
G|mp said:
Thats why they call them terrible two's !
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I think this refers more to their tantrum stage, which is an aweful.

anticonscience said:
What is with that, both of mine have had a fascination with wall plug switches.
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Ditto.. just plugs everything into them.. We have those child protectors on them but he has worked out how to get them off but can't. it's worrying!
 
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Two year olds are great they are just discovering the world around them and want to investigate it all! Talking of VHS my eldest son, now 26, was forever putting bananas in ours! the TV repair became a friend of the family, he came round that often! You can gets locks for things like that now but it's much better to teach them No (and much harder too)
enjoy the terrible 2s they go all to quickly.
 
We must have been very lucky.
Never had any problems with our two girls only thing that used to drive me nuts was finger prints on the TV,that was the worse thing they ever did.
Wait till they get to year 3 at school my oldest knows better in everthing,
can't do anything with out being told i am doing it wrong.And she sides with her mother on everything,at least my 6 year old is still daddys girl but she starts year 3 in sept so that will change just be me and the cat then;(
 
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luckily my 3 year old was good as gold, however my 20 month old is quite different!! into everything, but then again thats what the naughty step is for.
 
I have a 2.5yr and 15 month old. My DVD player/recorder is shot and its only 14 months old.....the flap in front of the disk tray is no more and the flap which hides the buttons wont stay closed.

However, my xbox 360 which sits on top is never touched nor is the V+ box. Wierd they only seem to be attracted to the DVD player and the PC...oh and my headset for the PC, must have gone through about 6 pairs in 2 years lol.
Stopped buying expensive sets afte they broke the 2nd pair and now on the tesco value £5 jobbies :eek:
 
LOL...our little boy has been going through the terrible 2's since he was 18 months old, he is now 3 years and 4 months old.

The list is honestly endless:

As an example: we had just finished decorating the stairs/landing in our house, 2 days later the little un decided to draw on the wall, all the way up the stairs...needless to say we werent impressed.

He has now broken 3 DVD players, simply by trying to jame discs in or trying to rip the loading tray off, funnily enough the one in his bedroom is in prefect working order.

He jumped off the sofa onto our 5 month old little girl who was on her playmat shouting "BEN 10 ALIEN FORCE" at full volume.

Tried feeding maltesers to the little one when she was in her pram....she was only 2 months old.

I could go on and on but its too depressing lol.

Everyone said it would be much easier when he went to nursery/school....ye, he's much worse.

And dont even get me started about the naughty step....he bloody loves the naughty step that boy.
 
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