Y'all,

I'm just full of questions tonight. Over the last few months, Rebekah has really started doing more new things. It seems like everything she does, though, makes her frustrated and mad. Is this a stage that toddlers go through? Will the frustration subside with age? She has quite a temper, so I'm really hoping this is just a temporary phase. If not, I need to prepare myself mentally for the long haul! Thanks again.

Megan

03/06/98 - Married DH
10/10/08 - Welcomed Rebekah Faith

Natalia can get like that too.... as I said, she's been better... but the things I notice get her upset is because she can't quite do everything she wants the way she wants it... I mean, her skills of course are not completely developed so she gets easily frustrated because it seems she knows in her mind what she wants to do but her body doesn't quite do it yet... (am I making any sense?)

Besides that, I do not know... I'm praying for you and Bekah! Hugs!

Paloma.

Completely normal ladies!:mrgreen:

I think some toddlers can be more layed back then others of course. Like my boy.. he had much more patients then the girls. If something wasn't going his way he'd just move on, no biggy, yk? But oh my! The girls, LOL.. they are something else at that age. Azalia's actually just entering into it. You know those shape sorting toys? She gets soooo mad when a shape won't fit where she's trying to get it to. It's a little bit funny actually. I don't pay too much attention to it though, sometimes I'll sit with her and show her where each one goes until she's bored and ready to move on, other times she won't go for that and insists on doing it herself so I just walk away and let her do her thing. :p

I think it's just how you described though Paloma! I imagine we would be pretty frustrated if we were in their shoes, yk? Anyway, its a stage. They will get through it and hopefully you ladies will too! ;)

Didn't read all replies, but Shaelyn is going through this too...so hard and frustrating for me! I'm thinking that she is equally as frustrated with not being able to communicate completely with me! So, yes, hard, but passing phase...

Something that does help is using sign language with them. They can tell things like all done, more and drink before they can use their mouths that way. Works wonders, and I do believe it does cut down on a lot of communication issues. Done it with both my kiddos and will do the same with any more.

Thanks y'all!

Paloma, your description was just perfect. Rebekah knows what she wants to do but can't always do it. I'm so glad to hear it's a passing phase. When I posted this thead, my gut was telling me it was just a passing phase. It makes me feel that much better, though, hearing it from you.

For the record, I've been doing sign language with Rebekah since she was 6 months old. She can sign milk, more, all done, and ball right now. Little by little, I've been introducing new signs for her favorite objects and for all round objects (anything round right now is a ball). In March, I'll be taking an ASL class at a local community college. I'm hoping I can teach her enough sign language over the years that she'll be able to use it proficiently. She actually says a lot of words now too. That helps.

Thanks again. It's nice to know a few of you are going through this right now too. ((Hugs)) ladies!

Megan

03/06/98 - Married DH
10/10/08 - Welcomed Rebekah Faith

Hey Megan - we did SL too...still frustration over here because we don't sign ev.ry.thing. yk? :-)