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She's ordinarily a crazy-good kid. As in, we get maybe one tantrum a day and it's usually pretty mild with more nuclear tantrums occurring once a week, sometimes more often, but never really frequent. She just has a pretty mellow personality and is easy to redirect. There's no magic parenting involved, we just got lucky.
She's also a creature of habit and needs sleep. She didn't get her normal amount this trip and so was much more difficult to handle. Still, it wasn't too horrible until we got to the airport this morning. I swear to you, it was like my child was possessed. She would.not.stop.screaming. We finally strapped her into a stroller because she refused to go anywhere unless carried and I had Griffin and Bryan was tackling the luggage. So I pushed my screaming, writing toddler through the Denver airport. For over 10 minutes I kid you not. She was thrashing around in the stroller, so much so that I had to push it solely on the back wheels because she would try and stop the stroller by kicking the wheels or putting her feet on the ground. Mind you, she was screaming the entire time and I am not exaggerating in the slightest.
It was awful. People stared, I ignored them (would have liked to see them try to make her stop), and Bryan shot them all dirty looks as he followed behind us with the luggage cart and our 4 carry ons.
Did I mention how terrible it was? She finally calmed down when we got to the check in and Bryan released her from the torture devise and picked her up. She stayed in his arms until security and was then back in his arms until we boarded the plane.
She's in desperate need of a return to our normal schedule. I'm going to put her to bed early tonight and hope that she wakes up mostly back to normal.
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Location:Home, thankfully
3/22/15 at 3:58pm, 8.11 lbs, 22 inches
Small children have very specific needs, and simply do not have the well-developed coping strategies to deal with frustration and other negative emotions. Ergo, children cry and act out when they're upset. What I don't get is when grown men and women get all hot and bothered because a child is acting like a child. Are they surprised? Do they really think that children are capable of maintaining their composure at all times? Do they really think it's good for parents to attempt to create quiet, docile, emotionless little people? THAT is what frustrates me when I see a child screaming in public, when other people judge and tsk-tsk because gasp! a child is behaving exactly as children everywhere do.
ReplyDeleteOh no, that sounds awful. :(
ReplyDeleteGlad you guys are home.