Is DD becoming a proper toddler?

[ImpatientGriselda]

Hi all,

DD is 15 months, and has recently become very quick to upset / anger, gets very frustrated when she can't do something or doesn't get her own way, and is much clingier than she has ever been e.g. screeches or cries if DP or I leave the room for a few seconds.

She has also recently reverted to crying hysterically when I put her to bed at night.

Please tell me that this is this a typical phase that all babies becoming toddlers go through....? Any tips?

Thanks

Yep, that's toddlerism. The problem is they can't communicate what they want, they can't coordinate properly and so get frustrated that everything seems to go wrong and they are frequently tired but don't want to rest.

Don't worry it gets different within a few years - not better, just different. I'm told they turn into humans when they get to four.

thanks whomovedmychocolate, it's good to hear that it's all normal - I suepcted as much, but it's almost like a mini-personality change in some ways, so that's why I was querying it.

Human at 4 sounds a good thing to aim for; so far I'd say the phases we've had are helpess woodland creature and now Louis XIV despotism...

ImpatientGriselda (love the name by the way) have you read Zagazoo?

My dd is 4 in about 6 weeks so hopefully she'll turn human soon. Right now she most closely resembles Elizabeth I.

Welcome to my world. I have a 15 month old who has been a toddler since about 9 months when she started walking. I thought she would get less frustrated once she could move properly but no. She throws herself on the floor, shrieks with anger if you take things away from her (silly things, y'know like hot cups of tea, sharp knives etc!), we get the arched back, the poker straight back when getting into car/buggy. Argh, only another 2yrs 7mths to go

Kathyis6incheshigh; no I haven't read Zagazoo; but it sounds like just the thing for my frazzled soul.

The trouble is that it's all so extreme; I am very placid, and have had the good fortune to live with (largely) reasonable, well-behaved people; it's somewhat of a shock to the system to enter a world where my lovely DD will happily violently assault me, scream hysterically at me, and break my heart by shrinking from me in rage...

My dh is like that; he comes from a very calm, rational family. Sometimes he exclaims in despair, 'But she's so illogical!'
He reckons I can relate better to dd's drama queen behaviour and that is why I'm more successful at handling it

PMSl at the 'human at 4 years old' comment

DS turns 4 at beginning of June......here's hoping eh?! Though I have my doubts....

I have a nine month old and a two and a half year old, I have to believe that once they get to four they will be human, otherwise it's just not worth getting up in the morning anymore