jenniesmom
03-13-2008, 05:09 PM
I'm just at my witts end on how I should handle my 18 month old. She behaves well at home, when I tell her no, she usually stops what she's doing, sometimes I have to remove her from the situation but when I do she doesn't fuss too much.
When we're out in public it's a whole other story. I'm to the point where I don't want to take her out in public but I know that wouldn't be a good idea, she needs to be around other children her age and play. I'm a SAHM so we joined Gymboree (parent/child classes/playgroup) and she loves it most of the time. When I try to get her to get involved with an activity the other children are doing most of the time she fights with me, throws herself back when I try to walk her to the children, screams, cries...I try to tell her we don't act that way, that is not the way we behave...I don't think she can even hear me...she's sooo far gone(mentally).
When we're in the grocery store or she's at the mall in the stroller she'll sit for a little while and then throw a fit, I will let her walk around holding my hand (except in the grocery store) and we'll walk for a good hour or so and when I go to put her back into the stroller she yell's bloody murder, face all red, crying, whole body is stiff as a board, I can't even sit her in the stroller because she won't bend at the waist....when she's that far gone there's nothing I can say or do to distract her to calm her. I've tried getting her sippy cup out, a toy, paci., but sometimes nothing works and most of the time I just have to basically sit there until she calms herself down. At home that's fine, but in public I end up looking like a mother who could care less about how her child is behaving.
I'm looking for answers, for solutions to this problem. Any and all advice would be soooo helpful.
TIA
Renee'
When we're out in public it's a whole other story. I'm to the point where I don't want to take her out in public but I know that wouldn't be a good idea, she needs to be around other children her age and play. I'm a SAHM so we joined Gymboree (parent/child classes/playgroup) and she loves it most of the time. When I try to get her to get involved with an activity the other children are doing most of the time she fights with me, throws herself back when I try to walk her to the children, screams, cries...I try to tell her we don't act that way, that is not the way we behave...I don't think she can even hear me...she's sooo far gone(mentally).
When we're in the grocery store or she's at the mall in the stroller she'll sit for a little while and then throw a fit, I will let her walk around holding my hand (except in the grocery store) and we'll walk for a good hour or so and when I go to put her back into the stroller she yell's bloody murder, face all red, crying, whole body is stiff as a board, I can't even sit her in the stroller because she won't bend at the waist....when she's that far gone there's nothing I can say or do to distract her to calm her. I've tried getting her sippy cup out, a toy, paci., but sometimes nothing works and most of the time I just have to basically sit there until she calms herself down. At home that's fine, but in public I end up looking like a mother who could care less about how her child is behaving.
I'm looking for answers, for solutions to this problem. Any and all advice would be soooo helpful.
TIA
Renee'