What are the top three things your LO does that you find really infuriating or stressful??
Which common button-pushing behaviour doesn't bother you as much?
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My top three button-pushers are:
1) Fighting sleep.
2) Throwing herself about during nappy changes (esp poopy ones)
3) The whining and fake crying. Oh God, that noise!
The common button-pusher that doesn't bother me as much is refusing to eat. She goes entire weekends without food..... and I just think "your loss".
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My #1 is definitely blatantly not listening to me or DH.
My least is probably the fake flailing on the ground tantrum. I find it hysterical.
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1) when she refuses to put on a new diaper and squirms around laughing and naked ... when we're already late. It's so stressful!
2) when she asks for something and we don't give it to her exactly how she wants it (at the time) and she ends up mad and throwing it on the floor
3) when she bullies us then storms off angry like we did something wrong
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The whining and fake crying is so intensely annoying.
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Just the whining and fake crying.
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Throwing food on the ground. If you don't want to eat, fine, but do not fling it everywhere. (Actual conversation I've had with her "you know, I made that especially for you and now you are really hurting mommys feelings." She doesn't care).
The frustrated whining yell. Ugh.
Flinging herself around during diaper changes. Every time. Doesn't she know I'm going to win- and if I lose it means she will flip into the floor from the changing table? Lose lose kiddo.
Things that don't bother me as much- when she intentionally misbehaves but gives me her impish look when she does it, like putting a hand on a wire and looking over. Annoying but funny.
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Something that bugs me: whining/grumpy clinginess. I love cuddles, but if you're hanging off me 100% of the time, AND you're not even happy about it, I'm annoyed.
Something that doesn't bug me: throwing food on the ground. Our dog eats it.... yay! lol
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Deliberate pant-peeing when she's mad at me. Especially when accompanied by an "oops...I go pee pee" and an evil smirk.
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1) Whining
2) asking for "more" even though she has plenty of food on her tray. She just wants to see if I'll offer something else, I never do. Just eat your freaking food!
3) simultaneously wanting to be in my lap and play. She will get in and out of my lap like 10 times in 5 seconds because she can't decide.I don't mind when she makes huge messes and going slowly doesn't bother me that much but she's only 15 months so that may change when she gets older and I know she can clean up/go faster lol
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We are in a hitting stage and it's driving me mad. He hits or throws toys at us or the dog no matter how many times I explain/redirect, and he will look at me and then hit me and smile and when I say "ouch that hurts mommy" he will laugh. He's he sweetest kid too, so I don't understand where it's coming from.
Besides that I'm pretty good at not getting too bent out of shape over everything. Not eating used to stress me out but now I'm over that.
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Clinging and and crying for me while I'm cooking and DH is holding her. Come on, E! She Rams my crotch to get my attention
Throwing cat food
Yogurt art on the wall
Otherwise the other stuff isn't so bad
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When she asks me to have a snack and I give her two healthy choices and pouts because she doesn't want those, then she goes to grandma and gets a bowl full of crap.
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pushed my buttons:
1) throwing food
2) still having nightly wakeups at 18 months
3) crying in the car when I can't do anything about it--stresses me outDoesn't bother me as much:
1) whining (I can just tune it out)
2) not eating a ton -
Pushes my buttons: the indecisiveness. No I don't want it, and then 1 second later changing her mind. Drives me nuts. Another thing is when she doesn't want to get dressed in the morning and we have to leave.
Doesn't bother me: huge tantrums, I can't help but laugh. When she doesn't eat. When she makes a huge mess.
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These behaviours sometimes bleed into school age kids. I hav to curb the whining when they're with me.
"Sorry, I don't respond to whining. Talk to me in a normal voice."
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There are some brilliant ones here!
@.twist.: YES!!! I said something similar yesterday - I don't mind her not going to bed in the evening if she's actually happy to be up!!! But if you're gonna be grotty, go to bed!!
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@Cherrybee: Haha! I think I'm opposite to you. I got used to the whining several months ago (which is also what she mainly does during diaper changes too). Fighting sleep doesn't bug me in theory, but my heart starts to race and I get really hot, so obviously there is still some anxiety in there. However, not eating totally drives me crazy - I'm convinced she'll be awake all night because she's hungry.
Obscenely early wakeups also drive me crazy. 5 AM is NOT morning.
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The one thing I really have no patience for is the high-pitched screaming. It especially stresses me out when she does it in her high chair.
She's only 14 months so I think I tolerate a lot of her behavior and am more patient than I will be in a year or so!
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Pushes my buttons:
1) Extreme crankiness combined with clinginess.
2) Fighting me about getting in the car seat, especially when we are in a hurry.
3) Trying to break away and run from me when I want to hold her had in the parking lot. Often I end up carrying her kicking and screaming.
4) Hitting. Luckily it doesn't happen often, but when LO attempts to hit me or hit the dog, I find it really hard to keep my cool.Doesn't bother me too much:
1) Night wake ups
2) Stalling for bedtime by taking forever on the potty
3) Taking off her diaper in the crib and peeing in bed. Ok, I hate it, but it doesn't push my buttons. I understand that she doesn't want a wet diaper.
4) Throwing food. This used to really bother me, but I'm over it. I just throw it away or call in the dog to clean it up.
5) Changing her mind. It's a little exasperating, but it doesn't bother me like the other things do. -
Whining and screaming in the car are what get me. I can tolerate a lot, but those just kill me.
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Pushes my buttons:
- mixing all the paint colors in their containers. DRIVES ME BANANAS. Doesn't he understand they will all turn brown?!
- running away from me as I am trying to get him dressed or leave the house.
- throwing foodDoesn't bother me:
- not eating
- whining/tantrums
- wanting to be carried/clinginess. -
1. Screaming for no reason other than to scream in the car. It echoes and gives me such a headache
2. Treating me like a jumping castle.
3. Whining and that noise that sounds like nails on a chalkboard.
4. Acting like being asked to try this delicious food is absolute torture.Doesn't bother me so much
1. Making a mess
2. Not eating - It is starting to bother me more since she currently has about 5 foods she will eat and they are all carbs.@blackbird: H tries to stick her finger up my butt. I'm like do you really need attention that bad?
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@AprilFool: hahaha!!!! Omg.
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My main two are safety issues...
1.) THE CLIMBING. We are destined for an ER visit in the near future. DD climbs EVERYTHING and lives in a world of time outs in between climbing things.
2.) Thinks it's funny to run off, especially in parking lots. She doesn't always want to hold our hands, so I always have my hand on her, but she is mega super fast, and she will tear off and leave giggles in her dust and we really have to work to grab her fast. So like PP, I end up carrying her screaming and explaining that if she doesn't want to hold my hand, then she gets carried.
3.) Biting bc she's pissed off. Unfortunately, she got my temper, and for example - when she's already agitated with me for something, and then I force her to hold my hand in the Target parking lot, she will bite my hand. I am really still struggling with how to handle it because there's not a lot of places to put her in Time Out in the Target parking lot or similar public places.
Oh and I have a #4) When she has the audacity to be picky about what movie she wants to watch on the iPad in the car. She will throw a fit, but not always tell us which one she wants to watch, and I usually end up playing something and letting her fuss about it for a few minutes. It's like, "You are two and you have an iPad. Don't be an asshole about something so lucky."
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@NovBaby1112: Indecisiveness!
Me: "Do you want to take your coat off since it's 90 degrees in here?"Her: "NOOOOOOO!"
10 milliseconds later, she's trying to get her coat off and saying, "Mama, HEP ME!!!!"
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The. fucking. whining. Dear lord.
Yanking/pulling on me to get my attention. My arm doesn't stretch like that, woman!
I mean... really that's it. I can handle the rest.
@blackbird: @AprilFool: Mine smacks my ass and grins at me. She got it from her dad.....
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Love this post! So many things hard to narrow it down to 3 lol:
1. Throwing food deliberately (used to drive me INSANE, thank God he no longer do it much)
2. Fighting bedtime for at least an hour, and summon me back into his room repeatedly, EVERY NIGHT. It doesn't matter if I put him to bed at 7 or if I put him to bed at 10. He would fight/play/talk/whine/cry/request miscellaneous things/get in and out of bed an hour before he sleeps.
3. Doesn't listen/do the thing that was requested (eg. clean up his toys, or put on his pants + wash his hands after using the potty) when I repeatedly request the same thing for the past 10 minutes.Things that doesn't bother me:
- Nightly wake-ups for up to 2 times. (I go insane at the 3rd but thankfully he seldom woke more than 2 times a night. I dealt with it like there's no big deal in the first 8-9 months)
- OK I can't think of anything else lol -
1. Throwing food when she's done with it. Actually what she does is swipe her hands across the table/high chair and sends food everywhere. Drives me insane. Then the dogs fight over the pieces which makes it worse.
2. Refusing to sit in car seat. Thankfully it's rare, but she's strong and will stand up straight and lock her legs and scream when she isn't in the mood to be strapped in.
3. She things it's hilarious to splash-a lot- in the tub. She can soak our entire bathroom.Doesn't bother me: tantrums. They are usually so melodramatic it's kind of hilarious.
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@MrsRoo: E's tantrums are the same way. DH and I will sing "it's the end of the world as we know it..." whenever E has a lay-on-the-ground crying fit. Doesn't bother me at all.
I guess the main two are the car seat (although he chills after a minute or two) and the fact that we have to hide all the screens. We aren't stingy with screen time, but if he had his way, he'd carry my iPad around 24 hours a day. And if he sees it and we put it up....guaranteed meltdown. These bother me because they are preventable and I feel like it is my fault because the iPad/phone is such a clear trigger.
The not eating thing doesn't bother me, but it distresses DH to no end.
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