Upset by my toddler choosing my wife

[Kirsty131211]

can anyone offer any advise on how to cope when my 2 year old out right rejects me and chooses his other mummy for comfort?
I end up assessing my parenting and over criticising everything I do. I carried our little boy and he is worshiped by the both of us. But how do I not let this upset and affect me?

Toddlers are fickle. Which parent they prefer at that particular moment has no bearing on your parenting skills. Our two year old often asks for whichever parent isn’t there but she mostly would prefer my husband but she has moments when she prefers me. You can’t take it personally because two year olds don’t have the cognitive reasoning to deliberately pick one parent over the other due to your parenting style.

PP is right, it's not you, it's them! Both of my toddlers go through these stages. My youngest only wants me right now whereas my eldest (3) is all for his Daddy. It was the other way around last month and will likely change again next month.

I've told this story on here before: DD, probably 2 or 3 fell over in the garden. I went to comfort her and was told, "I don't want YOU - I want Nicola!" Nicola was her key-worker at nursery. As PP, toddlers are fickle.