my daughter is 2 1/2 and has changed into a moaning little girl who throughs temper tantrums regularly over silly little things. and now shes started smacking me too
i feel like ive tryed everything ive spocken to friends and my health visitor and have tryed lots of ideas such as time out, ignoring her and going into another room, trying to calm her down and talking to her, distaction but when shes in a bad mood i cant seem to get her interested in anything, telling her off just makes her worse. but nothing seems to work long term shes ok for a few weeks but then shes back to being a little devil.
we have spocken about getting her into a nursery so she occupied and has a challenge but now coming up to summer hols my local ones are closed and others are either full or just expensive, i take her to baby gym and toddler group, and swimming but getting there is so hard that we are starting to miss them which doesnt help but when she refuses to get ready thers not much else i can do, but then i just have to try to keep her occupied at home which is hard.
were just going around in circles
please help, any ideas would be great

This is only an idea - it might not work with your daughter although I have to say it worked wonders with ours. It hinges on the idea that at 2 and half the immune system comes online and the body becomes much more particular about what foods and chemicals are absorbed.

We found that excluding chocolate made for a calmer child. I know it sounds mean - but no more so than the alternatives you have tried. Alternative, safe sweets can be peppermints or licorice.

It took 6 weeks before we were sure of the results. Good luck!