Whinging baby - whinging child ?

[WorzselMummage]

My Son is a whinger. He likes nothing more than having a good moan, he's rarely happy and when he is he pretends he's not. I seem to spend all day listening to a low level moaning with him face pulling and hanging off my legs, it's like nothing is ever good enough. He's a little treature ( honestly!) but such hard work.

Do all boys whine ? He's 17 months old and a real mummys boy and also in the misdt of his clingy phase so it's doubly hard. He's wants to spend all day on my lap (fine) yelling right in to my earhole (not so fine). I just want a bit of peace!

Please someone tell me he'll grow out of it.

My dd (nearly 19months) went through a whingy, clingy, 'please god can i have some peace' phase but seems to have grown out of it. Although she does have the occasional day when she's in a bad mood, but don't we all!!
I'm sure he will grow out of it soon enough. Well done for staying sane in the meantime!

My DS is 18 months and a real whinger too. Seems to be a combination of teething and increasing separation anxiety. He constantly wants to climb on my lap/be picked up, then when he is picked up he just wants to get straight down again . He does have some lovely happy, smiley moments, but these are few and far between right now. I really hope he grows out of it soon.......

Yep my ds was like this from birth. Had to laugh at your comment about 'when he is happy he's pretending he's not' that summed up my ds!

He;s 2,8 now and still fairly demanding, not in a whingy way, doesn't cry or whinge all the time but my goodness he can sulk! He argues over everything (although actutally this past month does seem to be growing out of it a nit). He requires a lot of input and constantly talks which is nice as long as he's not veing negative or bossy which he often is unfortunately. He is lovely though! Just quite sensitive and takes things very personally. It does get better though, the crying and whinging eventually gets replaced with arguing and sulking!

Sounds like I might be in for the long haul then !

George has been like it since birth too pretty much, he likes the sound of his own voice.

Its so bloody waring isn't it. Thank God for wine and chocolate.

my son too is a whinger, is 2 years old and seems to actually enjoy moaning sometimes! still i adopted a stragety of counting him when he starts to whine, he gets a 1, if it continues he gets a 2 and if he still carries on (and the problem hasnt been resolved), he gets a 3 and must have a time out in his travel cot/playpen. it seems to be working and he does not whinge half as much as he used too. you must be consistent though. i count him for behaviours i want to stop: ie: moaning, whining, shouting, screaming etc. for serious crimes like hitting or biting, he gets a straight 3 and times out, after he has calmed down, he comes out, i dont talk to him, no emotions shown, then we just carry on doing what we were doing nicely. Trust me-it works.

My ds was an awful whinger, he is 9 now and still is! The difference is that now I can tell him to pack it in, which he then does