Anyone else dealing with the terrible 1's? How do you deal?

starlight_24 · June 2010

For the past month my 15 mo old DD has been the most crabby, whiny, little lady! I feel like I'm going to go crazy. She whines about everything and gets so upset. She is climbing up on the table, chairs, whatever she can attempt. She seems frustrated all the time...I distract her and literally 5 minutes later she has found something else to be upset about. This is exhausting! Before she exhibited this behavior when she was tired...Now its constant no matter how much she's slept/ate/been changed or played with. Any tips and is anyone else going through this?

lawry13 · June 2010

Going through the same thing right now with my almost 19 month old. No tips but interested to see if anyone else has any suggestions. I have been doing the same things you have but she still gets whiny and upset.

tmp-459396750009209 · June 2010

YES! A million times, yes. Good grief. I seriously can't take it anymore. Every. single. day. he complains and cries and throws fits about everything. Ugh. I told DH tonight that I can't take it anymore. That I have lost my mind completely and I want to stick a pin in my eye with every single whine. He starts going on about how I need to "hang in there and think positive." (Meanwhile I'm cramping and PMSing like nobody's business today with a migraine that won't quit.) I told him to stop talking before I punched him in the face.He's no longer talking to me tonight.

Oh and our BFFs told us yesterday they're preggers w/ #2 (our DSs are 4 months apart) and DH really wants to have #2. Good luck with that one, buddy.

jamie.renee · June 2010

My daughter just turned one and we are already there. She use to be so mellow and happy but lately she is unhappy more often through the day than happy. My other 2 never did this so I am lost as what to do. My second daughter cried a lot from the start so with her we were use to it and had her figured out.

hewinked · June 2010

I got nothing to help you, but I sure am happy I'm not alone! I've threatened to move to a tropical island by myself. I want to pull my hair out every day. I have been brought to tears so many times. I thought my brink of insanity was due to me being pregnant! DD whines all day long, no longer listens to my discipline, and tries to get into everything. I can't seem to make her happy no matter what! I wish I knew what to do, and I wish I knew how to stay calm!

katiekate1974 · June 2010

Yup. Here, too! He seems do it because he's trying to communicate. So I encourage him to "use his words" and give him ample time to somehow "tell" me what he wants. Like in a store, when he wants to get out of the cart, his first impulse is to scream. I stop the cart and ask him what he wants and say "use your words, do you want 'down'?" He'll usually nod, so I say, "Ok, say 'down'." And wait until he either says or signs "down". It doesn't always work, but it does at least give me something to do other than pull my hair out from the screaming! (I only do this when I know he can say or sign the word for what he wants. It's not like I'm torturing the kid. Wink )

I've also found it helps if I explain everything to him. For example, at Barnes and Noble tonight, he wanted to play with water bottles in the cooler. So I said to him, "That's a water bottle. Look! It's square. So cool! Can you say 'water'? and then I signed "water". It gives him enough of a distraction to stop screaming. LOL

And then there are the days he just screams and whines and no effort of any sort will make him stop. I hope those are day care days. HAHA

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