dd is 2.3. She is at that stage where she wants one thing, then doesn't want it quite like that, and goes into complete meltdown at the slightest thing. Eg, she is playing playdoh with her brothers (nearly 5 and 2.3), she puts her playdoh in the squashing thing, wants it out again, I can't get quite all of it out and her world falls apart. Or she wants milk on her cereal and I pour it in slightly the wrong place: meltdown.
I can't anticipate all of this, I can't treat her specially compared to her brothers, and I feel bad when they are subjected to her screaming, eg in car on way home from park yesterday because her hands are cold, which is because she kept taking her gloves off.
I am on my own with the three of them today. How do I deal with meltdowns? I don't remember ds1 being this bad, at least, not this loud, and ds2 reacts completely differently.
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remind me how to deal with a toddler who doesn't know what she wants?
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MamaChocoholic · 28/12/2012 08:16
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