Hi, I'm new here so I don't know if something similar to this has been addressed but I'm looking for some help to deal with my 2 year old.
My 2 year old and my 15 month old share a room. I put the younger one to bed first, then half hour later the older. Lately she has been not wanting to go to bed and asking for things (I think to stall going to bed).
Last night we took her to go to bed and she said she wanted a clean blanket (she is in this neat freak stage) so we went to the closet to choose a blanket. I gave her a choice of 4 different blankets. She didn't want any of them. I told her those were her choices, she could pick one or use the blanket she already has on her bed.
This produced tears, screaming, feet kicking etc and of course this kind of behavior will wake up her sister so we have no choice but to bring her out of her room. We have a very small house so there really isn't anywhere else for her to go without disrupting the other kids.
I brought her out to the rocking chair in the livingroom and just cuddled with her because I figured her behavior was trying to tell me that she still needed some mom and dad alone time. She kept screaming so my dh took her out to the van to scream it out. I felt bad, but we just don't know what else to do. Let me clarify, that he didn't leave her there...he sat her in her carseat and explained to her that they would go back inside when she was done crying.
Anyway...she did come back in the house and said she wanted the pink blanket, so we went and got that blanket and put her back in bed and she went to sleep.
So maybe we dealt with it right but this is just one example of her temper tantrums. Sorry to be so long winded, but any advice/experiences I would love to hear.
My 2 year old and my 15 month old share a room. I put the younger one to bed first, then half hour later the older. Lately she has been not wanting to go to bed and asking for things (I think to stall going to bed).
Last night we took her to go to bed and she said she wanted a clean blanket (she is in this neat freak stage) so we went to the closet to choose a blanket. I gave her a choice of 4 different blankets. She didn't want any of them. I told her those were her choices, she could pick one or use the blanket she already has on her bed.
This produced tears, screaming, feet kicking etc and of course this kind of behavior will wake up her sister so we have no choice but to bring her out of her room. We have a very small house so there really isn't anywhere else for her to go without disrupting the other kids.
I brought her out to the rocking chair in the livingroom and just cuddled with her because I figured her behavior was trying to tell me that she still needed some mom and dad alone time. She kept screaming so my dh took her out to the van to scream it out. I felt bad, but we just don't know what else to do. Let me clarify, that he didn't leave her there...he sat her in her carseat and explained to her that they would go back inside when she was done crying.
Anyway...she did come back in the house and said she wanted the pink blanket, so we went and got that blanket and put her back in bed and she went to sleep.
So maybe we dealt with it right but this is just one example of her temper tantrums. Sorry to be so long winded, but any advice/experiences I would love to hear.
