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Does your toddler ever do weird things like this?

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Cal woke up at 4:00 this morning and DH went in to his room, tried to pick Cal up and Cal FREAKED.  "No Daddy!!" ...screaming & crying.  It was quite the scene.  I heard it and assumed that the opposite was happening - that DH was trying to get him to stay in his crib and go back to sleep and Cal was insistent upon being picked up.  But when I went into his room DH said C would not let him pick him up and was actually swatting him away when he tried. The second I walked in Cal stopped crying and held up his arms to me. 

Must have been a weird half-asleep thing, I guess?  

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Re: Does your toddler ever do weird things like this?

  • desabeandesabean member
    We've never had that happen overnight but garrison often refuses to let DH pick her up and wants only me.  Especially when it's bed time.  Lately I have to go in and pick her up and hold her for at least 5 minutes, then she is totally fine and says bed...but she screams her head off until I come in there.
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  • itsmevkbitsmevkb member
    My son does this quite a bit actually.  He's not totally awake during these episodes but he can be screaming and crying hysterically and will freak out depending on who is trying to calm him down.  It's unnerving but I've sort of gotten used to it.

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  • kegkeg member
    Not really at night, but we get this a lot, particularly in terms of who gets them out of the car in the afternoons. 
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  • futrkingsleyfutrkingsley member
    DS does this a lot at all times of the day.  He's very particular about who helps him with various tasks and when and trying to do something with him when he doesn't want you is a major disaster.  So he gets to pick who helps him with the potty (mostly wiping, oh joy!), or buckles him in the car, etc. He does it to both of us though probably more to DH.  I just go with it rather than fight it because most times it is not worth the fight.
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  • LucyPevensieLucyPevensie member
    Yep.  Just last night Jack woke up in a half dream state - yelling and crying that he needed his "lolli-pop-sicle" and "somebody take it AWAY,  it's up dere!" pointing toward the ceiling.  DH tried to talk to him and that made Jack scream and cry harder and I had to explain to DH "he's not really awake" and I just softly talked to him and rubbed his back and asked if the lollipopsicle was up in the sky?  To which he tearfully replied "yeah." and I said I'd get it down later and he slumped over and went back to sleep.  Poor guy.  I just think they don't really know what a "dream" is - to them it's a very real series of images and they're so disoriented in that half awake/half still dreaming state that you just have to kind of talk to them softly and do your best to get them back to sleep. 
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