Bad Tempered Baby!

lol must be an age thing cos' Lycan is the same. But i think he may be teething as well at the moment...but in saying that he will follow me around the house crying and if i know its for no reason i say "No that's naughty behaviour" (like he knows what the means) and just carry on doing what i am doing until he stops and then i give him a cuddle. Sometimes if i rub his head as i walk past that's enough to make him stop.

for a minute there i thought you had seen gabriella in action today...LOL...she is THE bad tempered baby today...good job she cant speak yet....

Alyssa looks far too cute to have a bad temper!!!

I'm with Shirena.

Can she crawl/follow you around? If not her frustration might encourage her to learn! It sounds like separation anxiety to me (cause of her age mainly) in which case it helps to bear in mind that she's crying cause she's worried you won't return. When you are with her but need to go do something shortly, see if you can get her interested in a toy first.

So you're within sight... sounds like she's being quite clingy for some reason though. Teeth and health okay? She may just be the cuddly type. If you can rule out teeth and health you could certainly try talking to her firmly, eye to eye "I'm busy at the moment but I'll pick you up soon" or something. Is she more clingy when you're grumpy because that can make them adgitated too.

Wow it rings so true with my boy just before he started to crawl at 6 months. He would show his temper by clenchy his fist and letting out a huge grunt and got bright red in the face.
He is now crawling and follows me around the place.
Only until the last month has he started to show his temper again, he is now pulling himself up and wants to walk but his mind and body don't quite connect.
I just try and talk to him during this time and he snaps out of it.

I do know a lady who would pick her child up when this happened and her child grew to know mum would pick her up, so she constantly carried her for months....her child is 1 & 1/2 and only just learnt to crawl.

 

Pepsi, I believe there is nothing wrong by attending to each child differently. Sounds like you have a high need baby that wants lots of contact and there is nothing wrong with it.

Just pay attention to her as much as possible. McKayla with all the moving was exactly the same. So I just continuesly talk to her in a calm relaxed voice as I go on about my day.

They do get independence, I promise you that.

Have you ever looked at the little baboons at the zoo? The babies always cling to the mommy. When they get a bit bigger they go off but as soon as something scares them, Where will you find them? This is exactly the same.

Unfortanetly there is stuff that needs to be done and baby needs to realise that as well. I am sure as soon as she is mobile it will get better. (then watch out for the leg hugging.)

McKayla still wants to be upped on certain days and I just do it as she obviously need it. And other days I can hardly get a hug out of her as she wants to do her own thing.

Briona had a shorter wick like that as well, once she got crawling (and then walking) she was much happier.