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captain_slinkyHey, wanna know a good way to feel like the worst parent in the world?
Friday night, Molly was up late because of us going to the Doctor Who Trivia thingee.
Saturday night, Molly couldn't fall asleep and we stayed up till about Midnight because of it.
Same for Sunday night, figured it was because she had slept till 10am that morning.
This morning, she woke-up at 7:30am wetting the bed, NEVER a good way to wake up :(
But then ALL DAY LONG she's been super-moody, crying at the drop of a hat over the weirdest unimportant things! Stuff like "I drank all the water in my cup", "I want to go to that place that we went to last year", "The cartoon is over" and "My shoes are on the wrong feet" (to name just a few).
Now mind you, these are every day things. Things that she'll usually get *mildly* upset over. But today they were triggers fr full-on, hour-long TANTRUMS of screaming and crying. Weird.
It got to the point where I just started getting mad at her every time she'd start to cry (which was very often) and just tell her "Stop crying; Has Crying EVER gotten you ANYTHING you were crying about?"
The tantrums continued through dinner and all the way to bed time (8:30), I figured she was just really, REALLY over-tired. Sure enough, she barely made it half way through her bedtime story before she was out.
All three of us sleep in the same bed, Molly and Crystal fall RIGHT to sleep every night and I listen to Podcasts for a few hours till I pass out (Mad phat props to Seattle Geekly, The Nerdist, Wil Wheaton, Window to The Magic and NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me).
So a full hour has passed since Molly fell asleep HARD, when all of a sudden she starts CRYING and SCREAMING and THRASHING AROUND. I am freaked out! She can't tell me what's wrong or if she hurts or what, and I'm panicking! I grab her up, I walk her around the room, I sing to her... eventually she calms down enough to start going over the entire list of everything that she had thrown a tantrum over during the course of the day, including her FINAL tantrum which was that she wanted to put on a puppet show in the living room. I took her out to the living room to show her that it's night time, all the toys are put away, maybe we can do the puppet show tomorrow (totally against my established "Crying gets you nothing" policy)...
...and it calmed her down.
...And it turned her back in to my sweet little girl, who then asked (through gentle sobs) if we could just sleep on the couch tonight. And then she curled up in my lap and told me she was sorry, Daddeeeee before falling asleep.
Laptop is within reach, had to blog the whole thing before I forgot about it.
Not sure if she's sick, scarred of something in the bedroom, had a nightmare or is just the most determinedly stubborn little girl in the world who has found the PERFECT way to get Daddy to do what she wants: Sleep-Tantrums.
Friday night, Molly was up late because of us going to the Doctor Who Trivia thingee.
Saturday night, Molly couldn't fall asleep and we stayed up till about Midnight because of it.
Same for Sunday night, figured it was because she had slept till 10am that morning.
This morning, she woke-up at 7:30am wetting the bed, NEVER a good way to wake up :(
But then ALL DAY LONG she's been super-moody, crying at the drop of a hat over the weirdest unimportant things! Stuff like "I drank all the water in my cup", "I want to go to that place that we went to last year", "The cartoon is over" and "My shoes are on the wrong feet" (to name just a few).
Now mind you, these are every day things. Things that she'll usually get *mildly* upset over. But today they were triggers fr full-on, hour-long TANTRUMS of screaming and crying. Weird.
It got to the point where I just started getting mad at her every time she'd start to cry (which was very often) and just tell her "Stop crying; Has Crying EVER gotten you ANYTHING you were crying about?"
The tantrums continued through dinner and all the way to bed time (8:30), I figured she was just really, REALLY over-tired. Sure enough, she barely made it half way through her bedtime story before she was out.
All three of us sleep in the same bed, Molly and Crystal fall RIGHT to sleep every night and I listen to Podcasts for a few hours till I pass out (Mad phat props to Seattle Geekly, The Nerdist, Wil Wheaton, Window to The Magic and NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me).
So a full hour has passed since Molly fell asleep HARD, when all of a sudden she starts CRYING and SCREAMING and THRASHING AROUND. I am freaked out! She can't tell me what's wrong or if she hurts or what, and I'm panicking! I grab her up, I walk her around the room, I sing to her... eventually she calms down enough to start going over the entire list of everything that she had thrown a tantrum over during the course of the day, including her FINAL tantrum which was that she wanted to put on a puppet show in the living room. I took her out to the living room to show her that it's night time, all the toys are put away, maybe we can do the puppet show tomorrow (totally against my established "Crying gets you nothing" policy)...
...and it calmed her down.
...And it turned her back in to my sweet little girl, who then asked (through gentle sobs) if we could just sleep on the couch tonight. And then she curled up in my lap and told me she was sorry, Daddeeeee before falling asleep.
Laptop is within reach, had to blog the whole thing before I forgot about it.
Not sure if she's sick, scarred of something in the bedroom, had a nightmare or is just the most determinedly stubborn little girl in the world who has found the PERFECT way to get Daddy to do what she wants: Sleep-Tantrums.
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Date: 2010-03-23 05:51 pm (UTC)