Sunny Parenting

So over the last four months or so, Sunny has been killing me a little more each day. We finally hit a breaking point at about the last week in June. I was losing my mind fast and needed help.

I was so desperate, I was even willing to read a parenting book to glean some helpful hints or find some kind of coping techniques to deal with two-year-olds.

Her screaming and tantrum throwing and odd requests have become too much to handle. Even my mom concurred that she was a “difficult child.”

I know she is not a difficult child, but just going through a phase that I don’t understand.

At the end of a very difficult day I typed “My kids are driving me crazy” into Google. All kinds of parenting forums came up with some useful info and some not so helpful. One of the forums mention that two-year-olds are supposed to have tantrums and that what they need is as much freedom as possible, and sympathy when they can’t have their way.

I decided to implement what I had learned, and…it has worked like a charm. She is a different person when she is given a little more freedom.

For example, at dinner tonight, she really wanted to eat her dish of yogurt with the serving spoon from the rice-a-roni. Normally I would never have allowed this, but the new me let it go and just let her do it. It really made her happy. It was weird looking, but it made her so happy. I guess she wanted strawberry banana rice-a-roni flavored yogurt. Whatever.


And earlier today, what she really wanted to do was haul our costco sized jug of pancake syrup around the house. Well…that’s where I draw the line. Instead of fighting about it, I just picked her up off the floor and let her cry on my shoulder and gave her some sympathy. That ended it, where normally she would have been flailing on the ground for at least five minutes.

So the purpose of this post is to say thanks to the magic that is Google. You have saved my relationship with my two year old.