How do you deal with a whiny toddler? Mine is driving me nuts. "Nooooooo!" "Why???????" *Waaaaaiiiiiiillllllll #ineedmysanityback

Kids are gonna whine all the time when they're bored/tired/doing something they don't like! My 7year old daughter still does it. "Why Mama must I eat my veggies? Why are veggies good for me? What do that do? What if I don't eat my veggies?" and the list goes on and on. After a while I get pretty immuned to it. Like if she whines during dinner, I'll tell her a certain time if she's not done, I'll take away her food and if she gets hungry later, too bad. If she's whiny because she's tired, the most obvious signs are her eyes so I'll get her to go to her room and "reflect". She usually ends up napping and comes out a happy girl. I get a hug and a kiss and she says she was tired so "her brain wasn't listening". If she does a meltdown in public (which is very very rare), we'll drop all plans and go home. She knows this because we cancelled plans to go USS when she was fussing about breakfast. Observe your child. Usually it's for a reason. After a while, you'll naturally come up with "counter" measures whenever your child starts to whine again.