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M has been a little bit...well...a little booger lately. I'm hoping some of it will fade before Thanksgiving, but I have my doubts. I'd rather not have to argue with her the whole time we are with our family. She is continuing changing her mind back and forth and not making one solid decision, but it's gotten worse. And mostly at breakfast/lunch/dinner time. The other morning we were eating cereal and I got her a bowl and spoon, put it in front of her, then grabbed mine. She immediately insisted that she wanted mama's spoon. I said fine and gave it to her, but about 1 minute later she wanted her spoon...too. She wants both now. I say no, momma gave you her spoon and now it's yours. She starts crying and throwing a fit. We've been doing this enough lately so I wasn't about to switch again. I told her she could eat her cereal with the spoon she has, or, if she keeps crying, she can have time out. She yells NOO! and continues crying. She gets time-out.
IN any case, it has been happening every day now and J and I are a little out of patience. Not fun. Every meal she throws a fit because she wants to sit in a different chair, wants different silverwear, doesn't want to eat, then wants to eat, gets out of her chair but isn't done with dinner, wants candy after 2 bites of dinner....the list goes on. I think she's a little hungry for control.

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itgetsbetter said…
It's a good part of their being differentiated from their parents. Don't let it get to you. Wait till she's 12 and goes through it again. That's when it's scarier that they want the control and have to try their own decisions and reject yours. She's still the best button around.
erin said…
Just sell her to the gypsies ... it's a tried and true practice. ;)
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