Calling all parents who have or had a toddler.. please tell me this behaviour is normal??? Mine is 2.5 years old and at times her cooonnstttaaaannnttttt whhhiiininngggg is doing my FU#ING head in!!! She cries when I don’t give her a banana, but when I give her her banana she doesn’t want it.. I nearly lost my sh€t when she just wouldn’t STOP crying for nnooooooo reason!! I’m sure this is normal but how do I try and remain calm??? Usually I’m ok and have patience and we hug it out after her meltdown but today I screamed so loud, she just smiled which calmed me down but it’s soooo FU%ING annoying!!! I am a solo-parent so I don’t actually have anyone around to help or take over.. it’s not a biggie as I’m sure I’m not the only solo to go through this…
we went out the other day and I told her before I took her out of her buggy that she needs to listen to mummy and if she decides not to when I ask her to do something (mainly something like walking out of the park gates etc) that I will put her back in the buggy and go home.. guess what?? Oh how she enjoyed not listening, I felt everyone and their uncles were judging me but I persevered, and followed through with what I said, she screamed the whole park down, it was so embarrassing, if I wasn’t in a public area I would have probably started crying.
also, this is my first so I don’t really have anything to compare her tantrums to.. (in case I get someone saying “well of course that’s what toddlers do and that I should know etc).
thanks In advance for any tips..