MustangGal
Ideal_Rock
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We''re at 15 months, and I think the tantrum stage has officially begun. If any of you ladies have some tantrum tips, please share!
It''s mostly dinner time that seems to be the issue. As soon as I get home from work, he wants to eat. So we put him in the highchair, give him a sippy cup and some cheerios, and find him some food. Then the fun begins. He starts fussing before I even get the food out, and whatever I try to feed him is apparently NOT what he was craving, so fussing turns into crying and melting in the chair. Attempts to shovel food in his mouth are met by the open mouth scream, which results in food just sitting there or falling out covered in drool. Even if it''s his favorite things to eat. Some relief has come if we put some slop on a spoon and sit it on the tray and let him pick it up and feed himself, but if he''s too worked up even that doesn''t go over. We did pull him from the chair and put him in the crib to cool off twice. It worked the first time, but I guess he figured it out the next time I tried and he just kept on crying.
I know he''s hungry, he just seems frustrated either by what I''m offering, or the way I''m offering it. I even tried feeding him in a different room away from the highchair, and that doesn''t seem to be the issue. He eats just fine in the morning and for snacks on the weekends (expect the one day I was out of his normal breakfast, which resulted in a melt-down). It''s just the dinner hour that brings out the tantrum monster...
It''s mostly dinner time that seems to be the issue. As soon as I get home from work, he wants to eat. So we put him in the highchair, give him a sippy cup and some cheerios, and find him some food. Then the fun begins. He starts fussing before I even get the food out, and whatever I try to feed him is apparently NOT what he was craving, so fussing turns into crying and melting in the chair. Attempts to shovel food in his mouth are met by the open mouth scream, which results in food just sitting there or falling out covered in drool. Even if it''s his favorite things to eat. Some relief has come if we put some slop on a spoon and sit it on the tray and let him pick it up and feed himself, but if he''s too worked up even that doesn''t go over. We did pull him from the chair and put him in the crib to cool off twice. It worked the first time, but I guess he figured it out the next time I tried and he just kept on crying.
I know he''s hungry, he just seems frustrated either by what I''m offering, or the way I''m offering it. I even tried feeding him in a different room away from the highchair, and that doesn''t seem to be the issue. He eats just fine in the morning and for snacks on the weekends (expect the one day I was out of his normal breakfast, which resulted in a melt-down). It''s just the dinner hour that brings out the tantrum monster...