Behaviour? What kind of Behaviour is this?

Hi mamas. This morning we went to nursery to get her photo taken. Once photos are done then she wanted to play at the nursery then I said will play tomorrow when u go back.
Unfortunately she cried and two mums are watching us while I'm grabbing her back to home and she cried loudly. It a pure embarrassed for me.
She cried all the way to home and she is so heavy to carry. I thought if she go to park then she will calm down but nope after 20 mins I said let go home cause it going to rain. Then I grab her again on the way back to home. Then I said "stand still!" Then bin man asked me if everything is OK.
Then I said yeh everything is fine.

I'm constantly worried if someone report it to social service about this and might lose her forever due to my actions. I tried to stay calm but lost it. I love her alot and tried my best to make her understand.

Everywhere we go she cried and scream whenever we said let go home. Now I don't want take her to places like farm etc.

I'm worried and scared. What to do? I felt like I'm alone in this.

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I’d advise to contact the health visitor for some advice. Explain everything to them and they’ll help

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I think it's normal for toddlers to behave like that
My boy is same. When he is somewhere he don't wanna go start crying and etc. .
But what we do when we going somewhere we talk with him when we gonna say it's time to go we will go.
Also we always say before we leaving you have 5 min and we gonna go.
Also trying to distract him like what we gonna do next after we leave park or wherever we are.
It's do helping but sometimes it's just don't

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Yeah that sounds like totally normal toddler behaviour to me and we all have moments when we lose our cool. Try not to worry xx

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thank u x

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@Gabriela I just hope so but I just want this phase to be gone and be happy. I'm on constant fear now due to public if they contact police or whoever . Xx

Thank you for this tips I will try it out x

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@Lauren thank you so much. I try not to worry so much.

Does anyone know how long this phase will go on for? x

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I understand you.
I think it would be easy if every child would just listen to us and be calm and etc .
But this is parenthood.
I'm not patient person as well and also can snap but I'm learning like they learning too.
Don't worry about other people.
If you see them looking at you maybe they have same at home and they just thinking I know how you feeling mama .
I bet every parent have that as well .If not with first one then with second child.

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It can be so frustrating- I totally understand.I think we worry about being judged all the time as mothers,but I think it’s often people being sympathetic and understanding your struggle!
It sounds like normal toddler behaviour.I don’t know how verbal your little girl is,but with my son,it does help to say “I understand you’re feeling sad/ angry because… but we can’t do this because… why don’t we do…?” Essentially - acknowledge their feelings,explain why it’s happening and then immediately distract.
For you,I find it’s helpful to take 5 very deep breaths and realise that it’s not forever!
Good luck xx

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I have found in classrooms (I was a teacher) and with my own child, countdowns are effective in preparing children something is coming to an end. So ‘we’re leaving in 5 mins, then 4, then 3 etc.’ it might be a bit overkill but I then do a ten sec countdown in the last minute but it worked with my daughter at soft play. And I agree with Rebecca about acknowledging feelings and giving reasons as to why something is happening also stops a meltdown.

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My little girl used to be really bad at this. When she was around 18 months and it was leaving the playpark we just used to walk on our and call her to follow. Sometimes it would take forever but she would come eventually. Now she has more understanding, we do similar to what is said above. Repeatedly saying we're going to go soon and then again but with a time and ask if there's one last thing she wants to go in before we leave the playpark. When it comes to other places telling her what we're going home for helps, also I always take food and drink out with me to give her as a distraction. Usually if she has a tantrum it's because she's thirsty, hungry or tired... The tired ones are the hardest because sometimes she will just kick off until she's at home and her nap routine starts/head is on the bed. She almost 3 but is a high sleep need kid.xx

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I have to drag/carry my 3yo from nursery at least once a week because he just really enjoys being there. It's unfortunately just one of them things, especially when she won't understand you are only there for photos!

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