Feb 13 2009
In His Natural Habitat
Now, for the record, I generally do not delight in torturing my children and broadcasting their misery on the internet. Mostly.
But yesterday, after an exceptionally long day of two-dler tantrums, my darling son took it upon himself to flip out because his big brother was eating a left over Valentine’s day party cupcake, while he was stuck with a measly sugar cookie. He tried for a good long while to snatch the cupcake out of his older brother’s hands, to no avail.
When that didn’t work he proceeded to demonstrate his frustration the following way. Being the diligent blogger that I am, I decided to capture the moment on video. Ignore my nasal tone as I try to provoke my son in to continuing his outburst, ignore also my five year old’s out of control giggling because he thought this was absolutely the funniest thing on the planet and was very proud to be a part of it.
I swear I’m not a bad mother.
I needed this. My 2 year old had three mega-tantrums today - all before noon. He should wake up from his nap anytime and this is just the comic relief I needed to put things back in perspective. Thanks, great post!
Toby
www.unprofessionalparenting.today.com
What a cute tantrum. LOL.
I have a 2 year old and his tantrums often make me want to cry, scream, run away, or occasionally just snuggle him and make it all better. Almost never do I want to just laugh and enjoy the moment, but then my son’s tantrums are not as calm as this one. VERY CUTE!!! I must say at least your son focused his energy into bouncing on his toy - lol. Mine usually just grabs the nearest object and chucks it at my head.
May I suggest that cutting out cupcakes and biscuits will almost certainly stop a lot of the hyper/tantrum type behaviours? My son could not concentrate and misbehaved for months until I read a book about changing his diet . within 3 days of cutting out bad foods, ie; cakes, sugary cereals etc, he would sit quietly reading his books. He’s like a different child these days. Go back to basics with natural foods and keep out of those supermarket aisles. Cute kid tho:)