If you have an 18m old, how much do they whinge/ whine/ cry?!

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I'm at my wits end! If DD isn't eating or sleeping, she's whining and whining and crying all the time. She constantly wants to be held, she cries if I leave the room/ go upstairs even though she can follow me but she chooses to just stand there and cry instead! I can't get anything done. I have other kids that need my attention too. It's making me so so miserable! I don't know what to do!

What's your 18m old like?!
(Plz don't reply if your child is an angel! )

Oh god! 17 month old DD here, and even though her speech is pretty good, she would rather do her whingy 'uh uh uh' instead of saying 'drink' 🙄

And if she doesn't get given what she wants, (usually someone's phone/purse) she throws herself to the floor in a dramatic display of devastation.

My DM says that her Oscar is in the post

Mine has a lovely little pterodactyl shriek she dies when she doesn’t get her own way- which is hard to discern as she can’t talk yet!

Most of the afternoon if napping for less than an hour and a half. Or teething. Or just feels like it. If something is not to his liking, he lies down on the floor, bum in the air to make his point.

It's a negative phase. Don't try to fight it or understand. Rueful acceptance is the only way.
This too shall pass (but not quickly enough).
Good luck

Yep this sounds exactly EXACTLY like my 17m old DD. It's so hard just now. Whining, crying all the time, falling over and hurting herself, running away, fighting getting dressed, going in the car seat or buggy, wanting to touch and throw and break everything, hitting, tipping food etc all over the floor, not entertained by anything really and just grunting or making noises when I know she can try to make the sounds if she wants...

I'm only surviving it because she's my second child so I know for a fact that it does definitely pass and gets so much better (with DC1 I was resigned to life being like this forever and I cried all the time)

Sympathy

daisydoooo oh yes! DD is a bloody angel at in laws. They think I'm making it all up and dramatic for no reason!