My beautiful Josephine Rae. She is normally fairly sweet mannered. She would always have her time mis behaving and being whiny and crying, but it was rare.
Well until now.
She's hit 20 months and all hell's broke loose. She goes nuts over small things that normally wouldn't have set her off. Like this morning she was tearing up one of my plants and having a great time doing it. Being the bad mommy I am I stop her and try to redirect to playing in the living room.
Instead of playing with anything I offer she decides it's now time for a tantrum. She really gets into her tantrums too. Arches the back, stomps on the floor, throws herself backwards, cries and scream at the TOP of her lungs!! Quite a show my little girl can put on.
This happens for a multitude of reasons including wanting something to eat a snack and not getting exactly what she wants (even though she's too young to tell us what she wants). We hold up products asking her do you want this? No!...How about this? NO! Cheese? Apple, pear, bread, cookie, cereal? No, no no no no....
Or in the morning when we go to take her out of bed is joy.... We go in and she puts her arms out for us. She has put her arms out for us since we started putting her in her crib. We use to just go pick her up. Now we walk towards the crib to get her and she screams, runs to the edge of the crib, throws her body on the crib floor, cries and lays down. So we say not ready to get up? and start to walk out. She gets up and screams and puts her arms out. This continues until we finally get her out with kicking and screaming.
Other times she'll just scream. Loudly. And not stop. You talk to her and she screams louder and throws herself on the floor.
Wow. She's quite a test of patience. I hope this stage doesn't last long.
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I wanted to let you know that you are not alone. As bad as Jayce's constant screaming was, at most, it lasted 6 months or so. So, there is a light at the end of the tunnel!
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