So my mom tells me I never (ever) had a tantrum.

[mskateb]

And neither did my brothers. According to my delusional but lovable mother, she had three children and not one of them ever EVER had a single tantrum. I just laughed and told her that was total bs and she was painting her version of the past with her rainbow happiness brush, as usual.

Of course this is all in the context of how my child's tantrums are unlike anything she's ever seen (because my stepsisters had tantrums and since she had never experience that before, lol, she didn't know what to do). Naturally, she doesn't mean this as a criticism of my apparently shitty parenting, but rather as evidence that Lily is just a "spirited child."

Ok, random vent over.

[sara76]

Lol. Please Jesus don't let us become our mothers.

[sara76]

And l bet your girl has the cutest tantrums possible. I see some pretty good ones in the restaurant on a regular basis. They come out of nowhere. I'm sure Amelia will never do that to me.... Right???

[moonstone523]

Hey.... what was your old nest name???

[kimandross]

Ahh, parents, such fun people they are. Maybe your mom knew my late grandmother, who would swear up and down that my dad pretty much walked out of her uterus, plopped himself down on the nearest toilet, and then scooted himself off to the nearest college. Tantrums were never had of course!

You are a perfectly wonderful parent and you know that. Lily's tantrums have nothing to do with that, just like my child feeling the need to shout "Bye F**kers" at my friend's house has nothing to do with mine

[mskateb]

Hey, Moonstone, this Kate, I had always wanted to get rid of my old screenname, k8elee03. Now I just have to figure out how to add a picture over here and I'll be all set up.

Lily's tantrums are a tad less than adorable, but I'm pretty sure they are in the normal category. She has very few anymore, but there they do come and go like waves. Every now and again she needs to push her boundaries, and we need to let her know where the boundaries are, and bam, tantrum. Though this morning she wan't having a tantrum so much as she was just tired and cranky, and I started laughing at her, then she got mad at me and told me it wasn't funny, which obviously made me laugh more. That was pretty cute.

Kim, it kills me that Quinn swore in public before Lily. So unlikely.

[stingsharkruns]

May 30, 2012 10:28:01 GMT -5 kimandross said:

Ahh, parents, such fun people they are. Maybe your mom knew my late grandmother, who would swear up and down that my dad pretty much walked out of her uterus, plopped himself down on the nearest toilet, and then scooted himself off to the nearest college. Tantrums were never had of course!

You are a perfectly wonderful parent and you know that. Lily's tantrums have nothing to do with that, just like my child feeling the need to shout "Bye F**kers" at my friend's house has nothing to do with mine

ROFL

[kimandross]

May 30, 2012 11:09:50 GMT -5 mskateb said:

Kim, it kills me that Quinn swore in public before Lily. So unlikely.

Maybe its just his way of saying he'd rather have you for a mom.

[tashaandsage]

May 30, 2012 10:28:01 GMT -5 kimandross said:

You are a perfectly wonderful parent and you know that. Lily's tantrums have nothing to do with that, just like my child feeling the need to shout "Bye F**kers" at my friend's house has nothing to do with mine

Hearing that came out of sweet little Quinn makes me feel better about the colorful language Beckett has recently blurted out, thanks to one particular classmate.

And Kate, I think it is easy when you are 25 or 30 years removed from it, to "forget" those kind of details about your children. At times, I can't remember things about when Beckett was a newborn and that was four years ago! And no kid is perfect all the time- small children get tired, hungry, cranky, over or under stimulated and have tantrums or meltdowns from time to time. You're an awesome mom and Lily's an awesome kid.

[stingsharkruns]

I wish my Mom would forget the tantrums I threw as a kid... instead, everytime my neice pitches a fit she says, "You are just like your Aunt Jena."