My 27mo keeps having, on and off, days of a Very Weird Mood Indeed. Doesn't seem tied to anything he eats -- could be happening because of tiredness -- but it's strange. He's got a speech delay, suspected oral motor issues (though is incredibly communicative nonverbally) so maybe he's getting frustrated that he can't talk? I dunno.
Yesterday, he was tired. His speech therapist comes. All is going well until they've been reading a lift-the-flap book for a few minutes and she sets it aside. The book is open faced and the flaps are, well, flapping. He gets it into his head that it'd be fun to stomp them down. So he does. I remove the book. He has an utter meltdown, involving trying to slap me, trying to slap the therapist -- he even acted like he wanted to hug me so he could get close enough to slap me while I was holding him out at arm's length until he chilled out.
Today I was on the phone. He wanted my attention. So he deliberately gets me to sit down on the floor with him so he can reach behind me and pull my hair. Several times. Times like this, when I get up and leave or remove him from trying to hurt me, he breaks down sobbing like I've broken his little heart. And it's all very calculated. He gets this look on his face where I know he's going to come up to me and try and hit me. And then when I prevent it he gets *really* pissed off.
This only happens rarely, and seems to be like a day or two at a time amid weeks of better moods. He's generally cranky the past couple of days, too, due to sleep disruptions (omega-3s make him wake up mid-nap to poop, apparently, and then he can't get back to sleep). Very clingy, anxious. Weird. Usually he's not like this.
Tiredness? "Behavioral issues?" Is he deliberately trying to hurt me or just get my attention or what?
EDIT: When he does do this, it's in response to things like "No, we don't throw our toys" and taking the toys away, or "I understand you're angry, but we don't hit people when we're angry" and removing myself. He's usually very sweet, non-violent, etc. These moods seem directly translatable to "Oh, you say I shouldn't do xyz? Let's do it some more and dial the shenanigans up to 11!" Sounds typical-twoish to me but I don't have much experience with kids that age.
Yesterday, he was tired. His speech therapist comes. All is going well until they've been reading a lift-the-flap book for a few minutes and she sets it aside. The book is open faced and the flaps are, well, flapping. He gets it into his head that it'd be fun to stomp them down. So he does. I remove the book. He has an utter meltdown, involving trying to slap me, trying to slap the therapist -- he even acted like he wanted to hug me so he could get close enough to slap me while I was holding him out at arm's length until he chilled out.
Today I was on the phone. He wanted my attention. So he deliberately gets me to sit down on the floor with him so he can reach behind me and pull my hair. Several times. Times like this, when I get up and leave or remove him from trying to hurt me, he breaks down sobbing like I've broken his little heart. And it's all very calculated. He gets this look on his face where I know he's going to come up to me and try and hit me. And then when I prevent it he gets *really* pissed off.
This only happens rarely, and seems to be like a day or two at a time amid weeks of better moods. He's generally cranky the past couple of days, too, due to sleep disruptions (omega-3s make him wake up mid-nap to poop, apparently, and then he can't get back to sleep). Very clingy, anxious. Weird. Usually he's not like this.
Tiredness? "Behavioral issues?" Is he deliberately trying to hurt me or just get my attention or what?
EDIT: When he does do this, it's in response to things like "No, we don't throw our toys" and taking the toys away, or "I understand you're angry, but we don't hit people when we're angry" and removing myself. He's usually very sweet, non-violent, etc. These moods seem directly translatable to "Oh, you say I shouldn't do xyz? Let's do it some more and dial the shenanigans up to 11!" Sounds typical-twoish to me but I don't have much experience with kids that age.
