Some excerpts that apply to our household:
- dawdle and fuss throughout each meal, spoiling the whole meal situation for everyone else at the table
- fights and fusses with playmates, seeming quite incapable for playing peaceably
- nightmares bother them so much
- crying about almost everything
I feel so much less crazy every time I read one of these books. Less like I am failing as a parent.
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Please tell me the crying about almost everything will end by 5.6 and not 7! I can't take it!
Thanks for sharing....I really need to get hte four year old one....hahaha I remember you wrote a post about how it was so applicable :)
The crying about everything is just now ending for Allie at 7.25 it is so frustrating. And the nightmares, oh the nightmares. I'm just saying, my kids are so close in age that we've had a fairly consistent stream of kids waking in the night for the past 4 years...we just tell them to climb in and snuggle down. Now they don't even wake us up, but I do find a third body in our bed at least one night a week...
Wait! I have to deal with crying uncontrollably about everything and nothing for another 5 years?!?!?!?!
That's it.
I demand a do-over. And this time, I'll be getting a puppy. :-)
Well that explains a lot. When I saw the title for 5 back when Jake was that age, I thought I had done something wrong because he was not always "Sunny and Serene". Loving and defiant is a much better description for 5.5. And my goodness the crying over everything and ruining meals fits Jadyn TO A TEE!
Please pass along to Tanika that a puppy is really just as much work. Nice thought but tell her to trust me on this one, LOL!
Thank you.
My otherwise well-adjusted 6.5 year old is crying at the drop of a hat these days. So much so I thought maybe she was starting puberty WAY too early. Glad to know it's normal. And the dawdling at dinner and the nightmares.... Happy to hear it's the age. (Okay, maybe not "happy"....)
"dawdle and fuss throughout each meal, spoiling the whole meal situation for everyone else at the table"
Wow, Michael is so advanced that he started this one by 13-14 months. Here I thought he was just trying to drive me crazy, but it turns out he's a genius! I'm so proud.
Over the course of his 5.5 years, he's had more time outs over this issue than anything else. (Although he's working on overcoming the record with number of time outs for being a jerk to our neighbor's toddler.)
I cried over every little thing for years, so my parenting karma is pretty bad in that area.
Shit, we're only 5.1 and already having all of those 6 year old "symptoms". The future looks bleak. Bwahahaha.
I like having a kid several years younger than yours because I know what to expect without having to read all the books. I am so glad I learned about the equilibrium/disequilibrium stages from you before I even had Lucas because now I know that several months of terror will follow by sweetness, but I also know better than to think that sweetness will last :-)
oh the weepies (what we call the endless crying in our house) - I shall not miss them! But so good to know 5.5-7 is it's whole category, gives me hope since I only have 3 months left of 5 then ;)
oy the crying. Over everything. Over nothing. Over anything. I have had moments (not my best) where I sound like Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own: "Are you CRYING??? About THIS??"
The crying is the part that I can't take anymore of. Probably because I don't want to see what happened to me happen to him because I cried all the time!
No no no!! This is my boys at 3.5 years old! I am holding on for dear life until they reach 4 because I have been promised that 4 is soooooo much better than 3. And now I hear that this lovely behaviour continues?
Noooooo!!!
Carrie
I was so glad you mentioned those books, because they are right on the money with this age. Can't wait for 7!
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