full tantrums<\/a>, complete with tears, screaming, arching her back, and throwing herself on the floor. She’s still new to this, so her tantrums pass quickly. The anger goes away, and we have a hug, and together we make the tears go away as well.\n<\/p>\n\nI definitely get the impression that the tantrums are beyond her control. Her initial anger may be such that she won’t let me hold her, but afterwards she is always a bit sad and wants a cuddle. She isn’t doing this to try to manipulate us. (If she did, she would have given up already, because throwing a tantrum has never led to Teletubbies.) She just can’t control her feelings.\n<\/p>\n
\nWhen she isn’t tired, she often releases her anger by shouting, hitting or throwing something – knocking over her cup, or throwing her toy on the floor. Which is interesting, because it’s started all of a sudden, and she cannot have learned this from anyone (unless it’s other children at the nursery), so it has to be an instinctive reaction. It is funny – in a way that seems so grown-up, so un-babylike, but what it really means is that adults who throw crockery and slam doors have the emotional maturity of a toddler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ingrid is developing a temper. She has outbursts of anger when the world does not behave the way she wants. The trigger can be anything – seeing the wrong kind of food on the table in front of her; not getting to play with CDs or my wallet; not getting to see Teletubbies. (She is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ingrid_johanna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}