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My just-turned-one year old has gone from a happy, placid child to a clingy, demanding tantrummer! I don't know what's changed, but I suspect it's something to do with me going back to work
He's been getting sick in the childminder's too, at first I thought he had a bug but I think he's just upset as it doesn't happen in granny's. This ain't easy, I'm so exhausted. Thank the baby Jesus for Christmas holidays. 0 -
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My just-turned-one year old has gone from a happy, placid child to a clingy, demanding tantrummer! I don't know what's changed, but I suspect it's something to do with me going back to work He's been getting sick in the childminder's too, at first I thought he had a bug but I think he's just upset as it doesn't happen in granny's. This ain't easy, I'm so exhausted. Thank the baby Jesus for Christmas holidays.
You're not alone! My guy started mini tantrums just after 1 yr and has got waaay more clingy since then. I've read it happens around this age. I wasn't expecting the tantrums till 2...0 -
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madeinamerica wrote: »You're not alone! My guy started mini tantrums just after 1 yr and has got waaay more clingy since then. I've read it happens around this age. I wasn't expecting the tantrums till 2...
Dolbert and madeinamerica, I was reading your post with interest.
Our lo is 15 months and she was always a very happy go lucky child, she seems to be turning into an antichrist.....last night was the worst so far.
Came home from childminder, would NOT take off her jacket and it went from there. Had to be forced to have her bath, screamed the whole way through her clothes being taken off, being bathed, being dried, being dressed, screamed when put into high chair for her dinner, stopped screaming to eat then resumed again after. We live in an apartment complex & I was honestly expecting a knock on the door from a neighbour saying ''are you torturing that child?'' after we eventually got her to calm down - I think purely coz she ran out of steam- her body was heaving with wracking sobs for ages afterwards.
It was honestly like she had been possessed by a demon?
Her top canines are coming through so I gave calpol. No temperature.
I couldn't sleep last night after it, it was very distressing. This morning she was crabby enough as well, threw her 1st spoon of breakfast (and it's something I know she likes - cornflakes) down on the ground in anger, kicking and writing as I was trying to dress her etc. I tried a stern word to get her to calm down, that seemed to help.
How long can I expect this demon phase to last til I get my nice happy placid child back?!?! :eek:
Is this teeth?? Is this her age?? 0 -
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Dolbert and madeinamerica, I was reading your post with interest.
Our lo is 15 months and she was always a very happy go lucky child, she seems to be turning into an antichrist.....last night was the worst so far.
Came home from childminder, would NOT take off her jacket and it went from there. Had to be forced to have her bath, screamed the whole way through her clothes being taken off, being bathed, being dried, being dressed, screamed when put into high chair for her dinner, stopped screaming to eat then resumed again after. We live in an apartment complex & I was honestly expecting a knock on the door from a neighbour saying ''are you torturing that child?'' after we eventually got her to calm down - I think purely coz she ran out of steam- her body was heaving with wracking sobs for ages afterwards.
It was honestly like she had been possessed by a demon?
Her top canines are coming through so I gave calpol. No temperature.
I couldn't sleep last night after it, it was very distressing. This morning she was crabby enough as well, threw her 1st spoon of breakfast (and it's something I know she likes - cornflakes) down on the ground in anger, kicking and writing as I was trying to dress her etc. I tried a stern word to get her to calm down, that seemed to help.
How long can I expect this demon phase to last til I get my nice happy placid child back?!?! :eek: Is this teeth?? Is this her age??
had to lol at that. That's one sign that she is ok really, stops screaming to eat
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Dori my fella is the same, a pure fiend for bread, he will sit crying into his perfectly good dinner, pointing at the press where we keep the bread :rolleyes:
Another thing is he wants ketchup on everything. Had a mini meltdown last week when I wouldn't put ketchup in his bowl of cheerios and he threw the full bowl at me :pac: Wasn't so funny at the time though
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My boy loves ketchup too! I think the bread is also a sugar thing.
My boy just likes to dip his fingers in the ketchup and lick it off won't touch food with ketchup on it tho! He's such a weirdo lol!
I can't even get a drink from the kitchen but he follows me in begging for bread and crackers. Then he's opening the press and trying to climb the shelves! It's exhausting because if I gave in all the time he wouldn't eat anything else! So cue meltdown that lasts 20+ minutes. Only thing that will distract him from bread is tv , and we had to wean him off his addiction to that a few months ago!
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Cason Embarrassed Tablespoon wrote: »Check the loo! I'm forever bringing random things with me and leaving them down on the shelf besides the toilet
I did, but no sign I'm not leaving my chocolate unattended in future 
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Dolbert and madeinamerica, I was reading your post with interest.
Our lo is 15 months and she was always a very happy go lucky child, she seems to be turning into an antichrist.....last night was the worst so far.
Came home from childminder, would NOT take off her jacket and it went from there. Had to be forced to have her bath, screamed the whole way through her clothes being taken off, being bathed, being dried, being dressed, screamed when put into high chair for her dinner, stopped screaming to eat then resumed again after. We live in an apartment complex & I was honestly expecting a knock on the door from a neighbour saying ''are you torturing that child?'' after we eventually got her to calm down - I think purely coz she ran out of steam- her body was heaving with wracking sobs for ages afterwards.
It was honestly like she had been possessed by a demon?
Her top canines are coming through so I gave calpol. No temperature.
I couldn't sleep last night after it, it was very distressing. This morning she was crabby enough as well, threw her 1st spoon of breakfast (and it's something I know she likes - cornflakes) down on the ground in anger, kicking and writing as I was trying to dress her etc. I tried a stern word to get her to calm down, that seemed to help.
How long can I expect this demon phase to last til I get my nice happy placid child back?!?! :eek: Is this teeth?? Is this her age??
Oooh....our 18 month old has joined the anti-christ brigade lately. My God the whining and the whinging and the screaming would drive you nuts. It's been slowly ramping up over the last 2-3 weeks. I haven't come up with a strategy to deal with them yet! She's roaring and screaming at everything. I have no patience with it to be honest, more than a few stern words have been said. I've a feeling it's the beginning of the next phase.
Right now she's been banging around the cot for the last hour. Her nap is overdue, she's up since 6, she's had a strenuous morning and I KNOW she's knackered. We are sitting this one out, she's going to sleep no matter what it takes (annoyed mammy). I am NOT listening to the inevitable meltdowns that will happen all evening if she doesn't get some sleep!
However I feel I'm considerably more annoyed than she is right now...0 -
Oooh....our 18 month old has joined the anti-christ brigade lately. My God the whining and the whinging and the screaming would drive you nuts. It's been slowly ramping up over the last 2-3 weeks. I haven't come up with a strategy to deal with them yet! She's roaring and screaming at everything. I have no patience with it to be honest, more than a few stern words have been said. I've a feeling it's the beginning of the next phase.
Right now she's been banging around the cot for the last hour. Her nap is overdue, she's up since 6, she's had a strenuous morning and I KNOW she's knackered. We are sitting this one out, she's going to sleep no matter what it takes (annoyed mammy). I am NOT listening to the inevitable meltdowns that will happen all evening if she doesn't get some sleep!
However I feel I'm considerably more annoyed than she is right now...
God, sounds like you have my little one :pac:
This past 5 or 6 days, she's turned into the mother of demons from the child that EVERYONE thought was perfect. We know the two main culprits. New baby in the house, and Christmas disrupting her routine. First two weeks of new baby being home she was a star, and there is never any malice directed towards her. She will stroke her head or hand, say "Ahhhhhhh der" and tickles her toes and will help with winding!
During the day she is actively seeking out all of the things she knows she isn't allowed to touch and purposely plays with them. Getting down to her level, explaining and removing her is like exercise now - I did this a total of 21 times in a row to try and teach her to leave the Xmas tree alone, despite her not having touched it the two weeks previous! We've tried replacement and making a big deal out of something in the hopes that she will want it instead. She's quite wise to that
At night, she is going to her bed as normal, but is waking close to every hour SCREAMING to be lifted. She's literally just over a throat infection, and scarlet fever before it, so the first two nights we did pander to it thinking she probably needed pain relief and was still unwell/sore. Now she's doing it religiously, despite all the silent entries to the room to lie her down and leaving again. Even worse, if I do remain in the room and she hears her dad, she howls even harder (so it's clear what parent she's looking for).
I got so frustrated last night that I ended up sobbing into my own hands outside her room at 6 this morning! 0 -
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Ugh my little fella is being a proper crankyarsè today. He has started a new thing now where he wants to be pushing the buggy or the trike all the time if he's out walking. Grand. Except he's not strong enough to push the buggy on his own and he freaks out if I so much as touch the buggy while he's trying :rolleyes:
He got really upset in the park this morning because he couldn't make the buggy move and he didn't want me to help. So I was there trying to calm him down and some woman in one of the houses facing the park started shouting and roaring at him out a window :eek: Wtf like :mad: He wasn't even being that loud, he was just crying and upset. And what did she think her roaring was going to solve anyway. I would have shouted back at her to eff off only it would have upset my little boy more and I would have gone and knocked on her door and asked her what the hell her problem was only I couldn't be certain which house exactly she was in. Argh :mad: 0 -
Cason Embarrassed Tablespoon wrote: »Ugh my little fella is being a proper crankyarsè today. He has started a new thing now where he wants to be pushing the buggy or the trike all the time if he's out walking. Grand. Except he's not strong enough to push the buggy on his own and he freaks out if I so much as touch the buggy while he's trying :rolleyes:
He got really upset in the park this morning because he couldn't make the buggy move and he didn't want me to help. So I was there trying to calm him down and some woman in one of the houses facing the park started shouting and roaring at him out a window :eek: Wtf like :mad: He wasn't even being that loud, he was just crying and upset. And what did she think her roaring was going to solve anyway. I would have shouted back at her to eff off only it would have upset my little boy more and I would have gone and knocked on her door and asked her what the hell her problem was only I couldn't be certain which house exactly she was in. Argh :mad:
Bravo for keeping a calm head! I'm not sure I could have lol ppl like that should go off and live on a hill somewhere in the middle of nowhere! Ridiculous carry on0 -
ShaShaBear wrote: »God, sounds like you have my little one :pac:
This past 5 or 6 days, she's turned into the mother of demons from the child that EVERYONE thought was perfect. We know the two main culprits. New baby in the house, and Christmas disrupting her routine. First two weeks of new baby being home she was a star, and there is never any malice directed towards her. She will stroke her head or hand, say "Ahhhhhhh der" and tickles her toes and will help with winding!
During the day she is actively seeking out all of the things she knows she isn't allowed to touch and purposely plays with them. Getting down to her level, explaining and removing her is like exercise now - I did this a total of 21 times in a row to try and teach her to leave the Xmas tree alone, despite her not having touched it the two weeks previous! We've tried replacement and making a big deal out of something in the hopes that she will want it instead. She's quite wise to that
At night, she is going to her bed as normal, but is waking close to every hour SCREAMING to be lifted. She's literally just over a throat infection, and scarlet fever before it, so the first two nights we did pander to it thinking she probably needed pain relief and was still unwell/sore. Now she's doing it religiously, despite all the silent entries to the room to lie her down and leaving again. Even worse, if I do remain in the room and she hears her dad, she howls even harder (so it's clear what parent she's looking for).
I got so frustrated last night that I ended up sobbing into my own hands outside her room at 6 this morning!
Christmas totally threw her. We got her back into the routine in the last few days though. Thankfully the whinging has eased somewhat, I've realised that she's a whinger when she gets tired. It's my cue to whisk her upstairs Unfortunately we're back at work today and she's with the childminder, so I reckon a few more days of disruption lie ahead.
New baby due in 2 months. I've no idea how on earth we're going to handle that one!!0 -
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I'd be thinking maybe she'd a small baby herself or something who's a poor sleeper and your son inadvertently woke the baby up just after she'd finally gotten him to sleep? Not that it justifies her behaviour AT ALL, and it sounds like you handled the situation perfectly, but I guess you don't know what mental health issues she has going on. Hope your little boy wasn't too upset by it, poor thing. 0
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