As many of you know we have 3 daughters and they are as different as night and day. Our oldest is 17 ½, our middle daughter is 13 and our youngest is 17 months. The oldest is very outgoing, talkative, and brunette, with blue eyes. The middle is quite, very caring, always tries to make you smile, blonde with green eyes. The baby is well entering her terrible twos, so silly, very smart, dark hair with brown eyes. In raising the three girls we have come to realize they are so different. The oldest has always had an independent streak so she was always and sometimes is still a handful. The middle was always so quite I say because her sister never gave her time to talk and now there is Lani.
We are now up to 7 tantrums a day just in the time I pick her up from school to the time she does to bed, I have no idea how many she has at school. She is refusing to take an afternoon nap now which only adds to the crankiness and makes this so much worse. She is learning fast and testing her limits. When you tell her no she will continue to do it but look at you while she does it to see when you are going to say something. I do not remember the other two being like this, maybe it is because we, as Moms, forget about things like that. Maybe it is like the pain of child birth, it hurts like hell when you are going through it but when it is over you don’t think about it anymore.
I have to say that when she realizes you are serious she will just move on to something else so to this day she has not had to have her hand smacked or anything like that. We choose to remove her from the situation instead of just letting her stand there being tempted. When she throws her tantrums we just ignore her and tell her to let me know when she is done so we can finish what we are doing. I make sure she is on a rug and can not hurt herself and I usually leave her in whatever room she is in until she gets up and comes to get me. Last night it was so funny because I had my back to her while she was throwing one of her fits and she got up off of the floor and come and got in my lap and continued to throw her fit. I wonder what process was going through her mind to come up with the idea of lying in my lap to get my attention because I had my back to her. I did not take my eyes off of the TV and she stopped and got in her chair that was sitting next to me. She then continued eating her dinner and that was it. It is so funny how fast their moods change at this age. I do believe the family is in for a surprise when they get here for Christmas. J