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Attitude anyone? :)

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Anyone else's LO's developing some attitude? DD has started shaking her head to say "no", screaming if we try to feed her (she wants to do it herself), and swatting our hands away if we try to give her something she doesn't want, or something she wants to feed herself. Oh boy, it begins and she's a smart cookie! She shall outsmart DH and I both by age 1. LOL
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  • amber31288amber31288
    Yupp, DD has given me lots of sass lately. She, too, will act like I am feeding her cat brains if she doesn't get to hold her own spoon. Luckily, she does not shake her head no yet. She is shaking her head yes a lot, and I am trying not to shake my head no around her so I can keep her from picking up this habit as long as possible! She's also been known to throw little tantrums.
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  • jldubb0626jldubb0626 member
    Yup! I don't really want to call it attitude, but he's becoming way more assertive and vocal of his likes and dislikes. He'll look at you when you correct him and understand he isn't supposed to do something, then just stare you down while he proceeds to do it a second time. Like, testing the waters to see how far I'll let him go. Lol.
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  • BrownMaBrownMa member
    Aiden has quite the attitude.  He will whine when he doesn't want something, or is bored.  He swats our hand when he is full.  He's something alright!
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  • kristin172429kristin172429 member

    Absolutely.  Ben has started an absolutely lovely habit of screeching and crying if you don't let him do what he wants to do.  Unfortunately for him, he is two very stubborn parents who don't cave to tantrums.  He tantrum gets ignored and he gets redirected to something else.  Sometimes, when he really melts down, I find myself saying things like "I understand you aren't happy about things and you have every right to be unhappy.  That does not mean you will be getting your way." Indifferent The good thing is that he seems to recover quickly and is happy again.  

    DH and I are really working hard not to cave in or reinforce the behavior in the super-duper hope that it will help during the toddler tantrum stage.  If he learns that we won't react to his tantrums now, maybe he won't turn into that kid who flops on the floor and wails and kicks and screams.  A mom can hope, right?

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  • jju_stb_jjujju_stb_jju member
    Ds shakes his head no and does what we call the shark bite, he will hold his lips tight together and not let anything through! He hasn't started screaming or yelling, yet, ugh fx he doesn't!!!
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    Absolutely.  Ben has started an absolutely lovely habit of screeching and crying if you don't let him do what he wants to do.  Unfortunately for him, he is two very stubborn parents who don't cave to tantrums.  He tantrum gets ignored and he gets redirected to something else.  Sometimes, when he really melts down, I find myself saying things like "I understand you aren't happy about things and you have every right to be unhappy.  That does not mean you will be getting your way." Indifferent The good thing is that he seems to recover quickly and is happy again.  

    DH and I are really working hard not to cave in or reinforce the behavior in the super-duper hope that it will help during the toddler tantrum stage.  If he learns that we won't react to his tantrums now, maybe he won't turn into that kid who flops on the floor and wails and kicks and screams.  A mom can hope, right?

    We've been trying to not cave in as well because we figure if we cave now it will only get worse. At this point, there are some things that she knows she shouldn't be doing, and she understands the word "no" pretty well. lol We do a lot of redirection, but the times where we tell her "no" and she throws a fit, we try to just ignore her tantrum until she's done, and it doesn't usually last long either once she realizes we're not giving in.

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  • 2chatter2chatter member
    DS does one thing that cracks me up.  If I am holding him and DH approaches, he pushes DH away and sort of yells at him.  DH is apparently not allowed to touch me if DS is. 
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