Tantrums ?

Oh the “cries” with no tears make me laugh. Like I can tell when she’s genuinely upset compared to when she’s just whingy and forcing it out and I’m like that’s not even a real cry 🤦🏻‍♀️ except my daughter likes to accompany it with throwing herself on the floor and kicking her legs everywhere. Redirecting sometimes works but other times we’ve just got to ride it out. I’m similar I do think some of her behaviour is down to me not being able to spend as much quality time with her. I’m a sahm but expecting number 2 and struggling with a lot of pain at the moment so it really limits what we can do and on top of that I’m spending a lot of time sorting the house ready for the new baby so I have so much mum guilt over that

The whingey cry is annoying. My daughter will close her eyes then open them to make sure I’m looking before carrying on. I acknowledge how she’s feeling but hold the boundary. Such big feelings. I did read that they do tend to act out when they’re seeking connection. Sometimes she’s just being a A*hole (sorry but she is 🤣)

omg that actually made me laugh, looks like she is very funny 😁 . I am trying to get involved when she is playing, but looks like she just wants to do her own thing. Also she slapped an older little girl today at the park, because the little girl told her not to take her toy away and tried to pull it out of her hands , i felt so bad and embarrassed 😳 . I really don’t know how to handle that . She just goes up to kids and wants to take their toys to play with them . She completely ignores me if i say no . Xx

Honestly it’s a good job she’s funny. She frowns at me and will look me dead in the eye whilst carrying on the thing I’ve told her to stop doing. Raising the future leaders is hard. I don’t want to break their spirit, I want them to stand their ground but parenting that is exhausting haha They don’t understand at that age. They have no logic. They want what they want hence the major meltdowns and tantrums over seemingly nothing major.
The kids and my daughter is like this at nursery, grabbing and trying to get the toys off each other. When we’re out and about, I just keep reminding her of gentle hands and I tell her she has to wait her turn. Not that she cares but I’m just staying consistent and hoping that she learns eventually. All kids go through it, it’s nothing to be embarrassed about. My daughter stop my friends daughter getting in her ball pool, pushed her out by her face and made her cry so I said gentle hands and removed her from the ball pool and explained why I had. So hard