It's just a phase
This is what I keep telling myself every time Logan screams in a fit of full fledged toddler tantrum. When he gets out of control, we've done time-outs (which has only been a couple of times). Most of the time it's just him acting like a little booger, so much where I have found myself in extended mommy time-outs.
Many times throughout the day I tell him, "stop screaming", "you're fine", "mommy's not going to read to you if you scream like that", "calm down", "this is not nice behavior", "if you keep screaming like this, you're going on time-out", "mommy's not going to play with you if you keep acting like this", "I'm not having fun anymore. I'm going on time-out".
So, I often find myself in my own time-out with Logan running around doing his own thing in the playroom. I have been so thankful for cartoons like Classical Baby (Logan's favorite) because when it gets to be too much (like when I cooking dinner), things are calm & quiet when he's watching it.
I can't wait until this phase is over. I thought it took patience taking care of an infant waking up often in the middle of the night. That was nothing. This is hard.
Our Roots
- Kristin
- Colorado
- I married my soul mate 10 years ago. We got married very young & we are very thankful that we did despite what other opinions may have been. It gave us a chance to grow up together & learn how to ride life's roller coaster ups & downs as a team. We had some good friends & adventures in Vegas when we started out. Then we hit a fork in the road & moved to Portland, OR so I could go to school & pursue a career in chiropractic. That's where we learned that sometimes life has plans for us other than our "perfectly mapped out" one. Bill got a promotion that moved us out to Colorado, somewhere he's always wanted to live, but a place where my thoughts of chiropractic school would die. Marriage is all about compromise, so we made the move to bigger & better things. As we continued to be successful at work, it felt like there was something missing. That's when I started to think about having a baby. As a stay at home mom to Logan, life was everything we wanted it to be. Then we were crazy enough to do it again & soon added Carter to the family. This is our adventure raising two boys in the Rocky Mountains.
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7 comments:
Ugh. I hear you. PJ tends to take extended "naps" on those days when he's particularly frustrating. Like today. How can you be that starving yet refuse to eat your favorite food? And that's after doing the same thing for dinner last night and barely eating breakfast this morning. I think toddlers develop the talent of storing food in their bodies like camels, because they certainly don't seem to eat enough to survive some days.
Thats what I sound like over here. I'm constantly saying "we don't scream like that", "we're not going to keep playing if you act like that".. Just today she had a full on scream fest at the grocery store because I wouldn't let her play with the pen that is attached to the credit card machine at the check out line. You would have thought it was the end of the world...
We are still. saying. that.
But I am here to tell you that it has gotten so. much. better.
Hang in there--I found the age Logan's in now to be very trying sometimes, but this too shall pass. Keep giving yourself time when you need it--it's more for you than him anyway! :)
I wonder if it's "Spring Fever"? LOL!! A lot of Mommy bloggers have been going crazy with their toddlers! Hope things get easier!
Oh yeah I know how you feel too. Kira's begun throwing herself on the floor and kicking her legs, not quite screaming but yelling (trying to cry) and I *always* tell her, "Go throw your tantrum somewhere else, I don't want to hear it or see it." Usually it doesn't go on for extended periods of time thankfully and so far we've not had to do any time-out type of thing. Some days are worse than others, that's for sure. Interestingly enough though, she almost always does it when she's tired and almost no other time. Why she doesn't just signal that she's ready for bed is beyond me. LOL
Yeah today I was trying to sleep and I heard Tate yelling his Mommie a lot today. It's kind of like screeching and crying. At least each one is brief. Like a few seconds and then he's over it.
I can definitely sympathize. When all else fails, we go outside. Even if the weather is gross. It's like a drug, it makes him instantly happy.
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