To ask if this is normal toddler behaviour??

[alittlebitembarassing]

My son just turned 2 and all of a sudden, literally the past week, he has started having a total meltdown whenever myself or my partner leaves the room - to go to the kitchen, toilet, anywhere! He’s never left in the room alone - he will have a meltdown if one of us leaves, even if the other is still in the room with him.

He will run up and down the hallway screaming at the top of his voice, his voice has now gone all croaky for the amount he’s screaming. He will start hitting me and roll around on the floor, it’s a full on meltdown.

Is this normal behaviour? He’s my first and only, and I don’t know where it’s come from, he’s never ever been so clingy, but this feels beyond that..

And just to add - no amount of comforting or reassuring or cuddles will calm him down until the other returns to the room!

It sounds pretty normal for me tbh.. Toddler tantrums can be quite dramatic!

Can the person leaving take him along but sort boring things so he sees he’s not missing out on fun?

Ah, good old separation anxiety. I don't miss this one bit! We had this with our DD at the same age - it does pass, just takes a while unfortunately. Completely normal but very hard at the time!

Dd completely switched after her 2nd bday, her separation anxiety was horrific. When we went to leave her room at bedtime she would absolutely loose it. Screaming, trashing her room, hammering the door, she'd do ANYTHING to get us back in there inc screaming ive hit my head ive got blood (she had no such thing. god knows what our neighbours thought we were doing to her) took 4 months to come out of the other side of her attacking us and just being generally awful and she broke me during that time. But it does end!