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DS is turning into Little Lord Fauntleroy/Child of Satan. Am I terrible for just leaving him to it?

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bohemianbint · 17/03/2008 18:00

19 month DS has been ill for about a week, so am trying to take that into account. He's been perking up over the last couple of days and has channelled his renewed strength into being a total utter pain in the bloody arse.

For the last 3 days, he has done nothing but low level whinging/serious high pitched glass shattering screaming. He sreams if you pick him up, he screams if you put him down. He screams because he wants a drink, he screams the minute he's done because the cup offends his eyes and must be removed immediately. He screams because he wants something which is 2 millimetres from his hand but he won't pick it up himself, he screams because the sun rises in the bloody east...

Got to the point today after 40 minutes of prolonged high pitched shrieks over nothing discernible that I just had to go and leave him on the landing while I went in another room to calm down and just sit for 5 minutes. It drives me totally beserk having to deal with it sometimes, I just run out of patience. DP's all so bloody relaxed about it, but then he only sees DS for about an hour a day in the week, rest of the time its all down to me, and today I just had to leave him skriking because if I didn't I would have bashed my own head in against the wall.

Am I just very intolerant or does everyone have days like this? Is leaving your kid bellowing by itself a terrible thing?

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JamInMyWellies · 18/03/2008 20:49

jaysus I am screwed DS 9mth has these screaming fits or singing as I like to call them already. People tell me he is spirited.

mankymummy · 18/03/2008 20:50

haha sam... me neither! he also said i was imposing my laundry preferences on him by folding his tshirts shop-like rather than in half down the middle. twat!

forgot to mention DS's other really cute (!) thing at the moment...

no matter what i give him or what i suggest we do its "i want something else" so like a muppet i go through a whole list of things with his only response being... "i want something else", in the tone of that guy on tv, god whats the show called where he goes... "yeh i know!" to everything! the guy in the wheelchair.

stealthsquiggle · 18/03/2008 21:05

confused as to how one "empathises" with a tantrum - unless she means joining in, which is a valid technique with my DC (it makes them giggle and generally ends up with us all in a giggly pile on the floor)

..but somehow I don't think that was quite what that "friend" had in mind!

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bohemianbint · 18/03/2008 21:08

hmmmmmm.....I think you're supposed to say "oh, you are upset aren't you" and leave them to it. Am not mature enough to deal with it that way, I'm afraid...

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stealthsquiggle · 18/03/2008 21:17

That's no fun at all - much better to stick your bottom lip out and then lie on the floor kicking and screaming

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