I'm guessing it's typical in most households with toddlers. I'm also guessing that it's about time for me to experience it. Yoohoo! Welcome toddlerhood!
However, I'm not quite convinced that I am actually supposed to go through it. After all, J has not kicked up such a major fuss when she is over at grandma's during the weekdays.
She usually doesn't do that on weekends too.
It just started.
It is scary.
I have yet to figure out why.
1. Is it because we have more people over at grandma's (the grandparents, the uncle, me, the neighbours, sometimes even the aunt) so J constantly gets the attention she needs? And she doesn't enjoy it as much when it's just Mummy and Daddy?
2. Or is she just... bored?
3. Or maybe J naps more regularly while at grandma's so she is less tired and less cranky?
4. Or is it a phase? The (very) terrible twos?
I really have no idea.
But I know I was the mom I didn't want to be. I screamed and yelled in response. I should have known better that it wouldn't work and would lead to more crying and screaming instead. Such a vicious cycle.
Never ending, and very noisy.
Ugh.
I wished I had done it better in spite of my headache. Well, it's a little too late to wish now so I hope I remember to do it differently the next time. I'm sure there's going to be a next time. Speaking of which, maybe I should find out more ways to ensure my toddler naps. *Grandma magic dust, please.*
(There's also a long-overdue-and-incomplete post on J's eighteenth month, which should have been posted when she turned 19 months old, sitting in the draft folder. It's been sitting there for a month. I forgot she turned 19 months old. And I haven't got the opportunity to sit down and think through that post so it's probably going to be a double-post when she turns 20 months old. Great. Then when there's a missing month when she reads about it in future, I can tell her how rough motherhood had been that month, with fever and all.)
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