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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
LO doesn't like me??!!
From about birth until 7 mos old, my little guy LOVED mommy (me). But fast forward from that time until now (he's 22 mos old) and it's all daddy all the time. Honestly, there are times I really wonder if he even likes me. For the most part I can brush it off because I know that little boys idolize their daddy's, as they should, and my husband is worthy of that attention. But it's kind of embarrassing at times and quite frankly, hurtful too. It's so bad at times that I am hesitant to even accompany him on a daycare field trip because I'm fearful he'll lose it and start screaming for daddy. I know that I'm the parent and I can rise above this, but it just gets a little much sometimes and I'm hopeful...everyday...that it's a phase that will pass. I guess I just needed to vent and The Bump alows me to avoid a listener looking at me like a complete moron. Thanks.
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Re: LO doesn't like me??!!
My mom watches DS Mon-Thursday and he cries when she goes home every night. She spent the night once and he cried when I took him from her to read to him before bedtime. I always put him to bed. There was serious crying, with the pouty lip and red face and tears and all. I was a bit shocked to tell you the truth. I hadto keep reassuring him that it was ok and grandma would be there when he woke up.
So I know how you feel. On one hand I LOVE that my mom and DS are so close and that he loves her so much. I want him to want to be with the person who watches him but yet at the same time I would be lying if I said sometimes it makes me just a little sad. So I go back and forth and I end up just saying that he just loves her as he should and it doesn't mean he doesn't love me any less but man it makes me feel guilty as hell that I have to go to work 4 days a week
I shudder to think how you will handle the teen years.
I have the same problem with DD. I was the favorite up until 19 or 20 months and it's now shifted to daddy. She says 'I want daddy' all the time to me and even has a Daddy Song and when asked says 'no Mommy song, just Daddy song'.
At times it breaks my heart, but really it's nice to have the break too. I did spend an entire weekend alone with her recently and she's started to want me a little more after that. I'm just taking it in stride because I know that she does like me and that this 'I want only daddy' phase will end like all the others.
What the hell does that mean dots&loops? Big difference between 22 mos and 15 yrs old. Did I say I wanted my teen son to be my friend -- hardly the point of the post. Grow up.
This!!