At my DD(2)'s 2 year old apt last month the doctors and nurses kept gushing on and on about her, how smart she was ect. ect., my daughter was eating it up, reading off the letters from the older kid's eye chart, pointing out shapes on the carpet, remembering all their names, talking to them, asking for the doctor by name, prancing around ect. One nurse actually said, "I would love to spend one day with her, just one day."
Literally I wanted to laugh (and cry). I love and enjoy DD so so much, but she is also so so intense and so challenging at times!! She is either so much fun, interesting, and insanely engaged, or is throwing these huge tantrums that can last up to 2 hours, debating w me over what to wear in 20 degree weather, ect. I sometimes feel like I have a teenager with the way she can argue and negotiate with me. Her sentences are 9+ words so it's not a communication thing, I think it's just a stubborn thing.
My friends who are around us often joke about how different she is from the other kids, both in what she says ("mom, don't forget your phone and keys" as we are leaving the house) and in how she acts (we will be at music and she will go and lay down on floor and tap her feet to the beat when everyone else is dancing, and when everyone else is trying to play the instruments she will be taking them apart and put them back together, ect).
I think we have to enjoy the wonderful moments and make it through the other times. Speaking of the intense tantrums/stubbornness/negotiating, anyone have any advice??? She is 25 months.
(One way I have found that DOES calm her is asking her what letter words start with. She loves that game and gets such pride in saying the correct answer. She will often ask me to ask her.)
