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I never thought that  would see my 7 month old baby have tantrums. I always thought that the tantrum stage starts around the age of 2, oh boy was I wrong. I don’t know if they will start full blown or if she is just acting out randomly, but I do know that it has began. Yesterday I was offering her some food and she starting swinging her arms back and fourth and making really loud screeching noises. Of course the food went flying up in the air and landed on top of her, and that just made her more angry. I wish I knew why she is throwing fits like that. I’m pretty sure that at this age she is unable to rationalize and try to manipulate us, there is no way that she is doing that. And I know that at this age she won’t understand “NO.” I thought that I would have a lot more time than 7 months..ahahah.

I’m in the process of reading Positive Discipline, as I in no way believe in hitting, pinching, flicking, or smacking a child. Not that I would even consider something like that at this age, but I figures that once the toddler years approach I want to have some sort of a clue what I will be up against. I just know that I am completely against spanking children, to me it’s just plain child abuse I don’t care what peoples reasons are. I think we as parents have a responsibility to teach our children right from wrong and how to deal with their emotions, not smack it into them. It always made me so mad seeing a parent hit their kid and say “don’t you hit your brother,” how hypocritical is that? I guess I just don’t get it how someone can inflict pain on their precious little child. I know that I could never do something like that.

Anyway, I don’t really know why I ranted about that, I just felt I needed to say that. Back to Sophie’s fits. I think that she flips out because she is unable to do the things that she wants to do. What I mean by that, is when she sees a cat walk by  she wants to touch it but she can’t reach the cat. I can see her legs going, but she is just not strong enough to chase the kitty, so instead she just screams in frustration. I have seen her do that on daily account for a couple of weeks now. Yesterdays food throwing was a new one for me. I guess when you have two temperamental parents you’re bound to be the same, the poor kid had no hope

So if you have any suggestion on what I can do to help her at this age I would love to hear them. I guess the biggest thing that I can do is distract her with something else. I just don’t want her always feeling frustrated, and it seems like lately that has been the majority of her days. She is a happy little girl, when she has what she wants.