10 month old tantrums!

[Bumpsadaisie]

DD has recently turned 10 months and has recently started (1) crawling (yay!) and (2) throwing full-on strops!

If anything happens that isn't quite what she wants, she really lets rip - full on crying, purple faced, tears, thrashing legs and arms, plus looking at me like I have committed the worst act of betrayal ever! I'm torn between feeling weary and feeling proud of her emerging sense of selfhood!

Anyone else's babies like this? I do try distracting her but she is pretty switched on and seems to know what I am about! Any ideas? She's too young to reason with and her feelings are very real so I don't want ride roughshod over them. At the same time she does have to do several things she doesn't want to (eg nappy changes).

And I thought being able to crawl finally would herald a new period of extra contented sweeetness and light!!

Poor you - my son has had his fair share of strops in his time as well and to be honest I always find that the best thing to do is NOT give them your attention - is there anywhere you could sit her that is safe when she is acting like this and then just leave her alone - once she sees that this sort of behaviour means she doesn't get any attention it might make her think that it is not worth it.

My DD is exactly like this, it came as a shock as DS (now 2.2yrs) has only recently started terrible 2 type behaviour and I thought tantrums were a long way off but DD has other ideas! Like you I try to distract her but there are some things that she just has to endure, like nappy changing as you said!