Help boundaries 11 month old..

Ahhh you have to wear her down LOL

Nappy time is easiest. Also start with a non pooh one! Tell her you are going to change her nappy, grab her & lie her down. If she starts wriggling/rolling over put her back on her back, hold your hand over her chest with pressure & say I'm not finished yet. Keep doing this until you are finished. Also at the end don't let her get up until you are finished & you help her up.

Basically with everything you need to "win" you also need extreme patience. With the high chair is she fighting to be in there or fighting with the food? Basically put her in & just wait until she's finished. Only talk to her when she stops or calms slightly. Say do you want to eat now. Nope that's ok I'll just wait. Also I have done no food unless in the highchair.

Good luck. Strong willed girls are so much fun in the end

Oh christ no, you are so not alone.

I went through all that with my DD & am just past that with my care child.

Hey there is nothing wrong with planting the high chair in front of the TV, putting on her favourite show that she zones out to & putting her in her high chair to watch & then to start feed, it will start off a non fighting pattern. Then you can wean her off the tv

Have you got a mirror? She might have liked being able to see you??

Thank you guys, I will definately start tomorrow and get this sorted. I mean really it is just rediculous! You are right bun_in_the_oven and have said some very helpful things thank you. Very supportive stuff. I think maybe I am a bit of a control freak and she is just testing me. Her father is like the village idiot around her and probally makes things much more fun for her so I will (although I am not admitting this to him :)) try his tactic

Just about the car seat my 10 month old hates her carseat for some reason (shes rear facing and we have a mirror) but whenever she gets in it she starts screaming and will often cry the whole trip to where we are going, unless I sing nursery ryhmes

ditto what the others have said - you have to be the boss and be totally consistent with her otherwise she will win every time.

I'll add tho that with kids like this pick your battles cos you don't want all day to be a battle. Pick one thing and really stick to it, cos then you are teaching her the most important thing - that you are your word, that what you say goes. If your kid believes this your world will be so much easier.

On a positive note i find that that strong willed kids fight then relax, then fight again later so you may have a tough few weeks but if you stick to your guns she'll accept your boundaries and be good for a bit before the next battle. It's all that toddler stuff, trying to figure out where the lines of control are. I bet hubby doesn't take any crap and she knows it!

I'm in Aucks and the Parents Inc place up here do strong willed child courses, maybe there's something in Welly?