Monday, May 01, 2006

But I wanted CHOCOLATE!!! WAHHHHHHH!!!!

I realize this is probably a phase and I am going to have to deal with it for a while but man is it annoying!

Every little thing that happens is a catastrophe! I threw the ball and it wasn't in my hands anymore, wahhhhhhhhh! I bumped my finger on the couch, Wahhhhhhhh! I told myself no, but I really wanted to do it, WAhhhhhhhh! He doesn't want to play with me anymore, WAHHhhhhhhh! My goodness child. It's not the end of the world! She doesn't actually tell me what's wrong. She just forces a fake cry and if she does it for long enough it turns into a real cry. She's only 19 months. This isn't a phase I want to deal with until she's 3, or 4!

I just don't know what to do with her. She's been doing it for about a month now. At first I thought she just needed more hugs and attention, but that only seemed to make matters worse. She got the idea that if she cries, for any reason, I am going to drop everything and give her whatever she wants. So then I tried ignoring it. She would fake cry and run after me until she got herself so worked up that she was really crying and I couldn't ignore it anymore.

So now I am just really tired of the whole thing, and I need a way to make her understand that if she needs anything, all she has to do is ask. And that everything isn't going to go her way all the time.

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