Well, terrable 2's..........I think my little diva, Nemo has been suffering this since she was 1 1/2! Shes more of a boy than my 6 year old son is.
She's very strong willed and knows her own mind (can't think where she gets that from? ) and she is very independant, which is a good thing because my son suffers with seperation anxiety so it's nice to know I will not have 2 children hanging off my legs. Even her childminder thinks she's fantastic (as does everyone that meet her) but the one thing that I am worrying about is how rough she is with her brother. He is so good and has not retaliated but recently he has started to. Now my home is like a scene from Afghanastan. Constant screaming,crying,fighting,pushing,kicking,hitting,biting and it does not matter what I do they still keep going!!! I feel exhausted and at my wits end with it all. I think that Nemo is playing a very crafty game because she can cry on command knowing that it will get Cameron in to trouble, but then I also have an issue with Cameron lying too so I don't know who's telling the truth!!!. So as you can imagine i am confused and have run out of ideas to sort this out. I have seperated them, put them in to their rooms, had them sit with me, time out, tried talking, shouted, took toys away, stopped them going to clubs and tried to ignore bad behaviour and praise the good but now I am fresh out of ideas

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I think this is pretty normal. I had the same experience, well I AM ACTUALLY in a similar situation cos my dd is 4 and my ds is 3, and they always fight, scream and anything that you can think of. Whenever this happens I'd separate them both sending the other child to his or her room and the other with me. It's funny cos they miss each other and they will make up after an hour or so!

Don't worry! This is normal and how did you know you lo is lying to you? My ds lies as well and it really is so frustrating and I can't believe a child can lie that young!

My son is as transparent as glass, he can't lie for the life of him! when he says something that I feel is not true I will ask him again and say to him not to lie because if I find out he's lying I will be more mad than if he tells me the truth, that normally works

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My ds lies and I am very frustrated and he's only 3

My kids would try lying at 3/4yrs just because they could,obviously they are no good at it. Charlie tells fibs now and laughs because he know his lie sounds silly. I would say most if not all children go through a lying phase

diversion tactics!!! if you haven't already divert their attentions from frustrations seperate them for a couple of minutes while you think of something for them to do. find them a job each. or to do together whether it be a duster in hand or a sweeping brush always have 2 of whatever you're getting them to do incase they both want to do the same job then they cant fight make sure they're the same in size and colour just incase. its not about them actually doing something for you so they dont have to dust he tv perfectly its just to take their attentions away from fighting!! hope you feel its worth a try. naughty step used to work for my dd but stopped working after a while... so started doing this and seems to work... for now lol

Me and my cousins squabbled and we turned out ok. all though I would send them to the clubs so they burn more energy in the activity rather than using it to fight each other.