DD has started having enormous, horrendous, long lasting (plus 30mins) tantrums over the last week (welcome to the terrible twos). she has always been pretty fixed in her ways, but it has been manageable till now.
However, this week has seen a viral thing and she has been out of sorts and the tantrums have really stepped up a gear, culminating tonight in her banging her head off the wall because she wasn't getting her own way.
I've heard of this before, but am wondering just how common it is, whether she is going to hurt herself or do herself some real damage, or whether it's a phase that will pass?
We've also noticed that where previously she was very clear in her diction and we could understand what she has been saying, she is getting harder to understand and is also regressing with wanting to be spoon fed and babbling rather than talking, pointing at things rather than asking for them (things we know she knows the words for), but we have a 6mo old as well and I think she is just copying him/trying to be a baby.
My 7 yo never did anything like this, so it's all new and very confusing.
help!