Tantrums

I would love it if someone could shed some light on why people call it the terrible twos?! Twos! Nope, Sofia has decided to start this phase about 8 months early. I’ve had about 2 months now of tantrums. They vary in their severity but most days there is at least one. I know all children behave differently when they have a tantrum but Sofia has adopted the lie on the floor and screen style. I don’t know if she thinks it works but my parenting style in these situations is just to ignore her. I’m aware not everyone will agree with this tactic but attempting to coax her out of the screaming once she has started just makes matters work. She eventually will calm herself down and then want a cuddle which I am obviously there waiting to oblige.

I just love how dramatic she is like unless my memory has erased Zac’s tantrums he was never this dramatic. Yes he had his fair share of tantrums but he didn’t flip his lid over only being allowed crayons not pens. Sofia lost her mind! Full on threw herself on the floor, screaming, pushing her dad away and she has now discovered you can cry in such a way that you are nearly sick which means your parents can’t completely ignore you. She’s not stupid like! This all ends in that horrible cry where they are trying to get their breath and you can no longer be annoyed at them.

Generally the screaming tantrums are contained to the house (for now), but she does like to just sit on the ground or even lie down when she feels like it. It’s not even that she doesn’t want to walk anymore, I think she just wants me to know that if she wants she will do it, make things difficult. It’s the cheeky face she pulls after you say “Sofia get up” like yeah I know what I’m doing.

Although we have had a few at toddler group and she always waits until I am preoccupied with feeding or changing Max. One particular day Max was loving life in the bouncer and Sofia spotted our changing bag and had to have it. No there was nothing interesting in there, not even any snacks – snack time was in about 5 minutes. She just had to have it. So she was standing pulling it from the pram but it was stuck in the side basket and she was not having it at all. More and more parents were watching as she was screaming trying to get this bag out. They looked from her to me, her to me. I just concentrated on Max and tried to ignore the drama she was creating. Eventually it got too much and I went over to her to show her there was nothing of interest in the bag, that didn’t work. She continued to go mental and I continued to get ‘aww bless her’ but also ‘are you going to sort her out’ looks. I calmed her down she was sat on my knee for approx 1 and a half minutes then she was back to the bag. Long story short… snack time saved us.

I am hoping because she started early then she will end earlier.

😂😂😂😂

Never going to happen! This is my life for the next few years especially when Max starts copying her.

Moral of the story: there is none it’s inevitable with children (especially girls!)