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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 694666" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>When I say "difficult" I just mean personality. He also slept thru the night at about 6 weeks...he was born 4/5 and slept 6 hours on Mother's Day. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> All milestones on target. Could read easy stuff by 4. He didn't color outside the lines after age 2. Stopped coloring in favor of drawing things himself by 4. Was VERY bright, even advanced, but poor social skills. He was always a solemn little guy. Not smiley at all, but not fussy really. Just stubborn! </p><p></p><p>When he was a toddler, if he'd try to get something and you'd tell him no, he'd reach anyway. You move his hand away, he'd go right back to reaching. You'd slap his fingers, he'd ignore you. Slap hard enough to hurt and he'd cry and reach with the other hand!!! He would NOT go to sleep without being rocked. I tried the "wait 2 minutes and then go in" and then "wait 3 minutes and then go in"...but instead of stopping crying, he'd get so worked up and scream so much he'd make himself throw up! Then I had a screaming child and a mess to clean up. Yeah...that happened twice and then he was rocked to sleep until he was 2 and I moved him to a twin bed and would lay with him until he slept. He would NOT let something drop. His tantrums were usually about something small. His first ever was because he wanted to cut his own fingernails and I wouldn't give him the clippers - he was barely 2. His worst was because he wanted to go say bye to a friend...but screamed it at me instead of asking if he could, so I said no. Nothing was ever his fault. If he lost a game, someone cheated. If he lost a video game, the game cheated. At about age 3 he was in a pre-school program, and he had a complete meltdown because he was doing a maze, went over a line, and the teacher told him to just ignore it and finish, instead of giving him a clean paper to start over. A perfectionist like you wouldn't believe. Tantrums weren't the type you'd ignore and they'd stop...they'd go for an hour and if you walked away he'd grab you, but if you tried to touch him he'd fight you. Exhausting. </p><p></p><p>But you know, I had never been around young children. I thought that was on the extreme side of normal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 694666, member: 17309"] When I say "difficult" I just mean personality. He also slept thru the night at about 6 weeks...he was born 4/5 and slept 6 hours on Mother's Day. :) All milestones on target. Could read easy stuff by 4. He didn't color outside the lines after age 2. Stopped coloring in favor of drawing things himself by 4. Was VERY bright, even advanced, but poor social skills. He was always a solemn little guy. Not smiley at all, but not fussy really. Just stubborn! When he was a toddler, if he'd try to get something and you'd tell him no, he'd reach anyway. You move his hand away, he'd go right back to reaching. You'd slap his fingers, he'd ignore you. Slap hard enough to hurt and he'd cry and reach with the other hand!!! He would NOT go to sleep without being rocked. I tried the "wait 2 minutes and then go in" and then "wait 3 minutes and then go in"...but instead of stopping crying, he'd get so worked up and scream so much he'd make himself throw up! Then I had a screaming child and a mess to clean up. Yeah...that happened twice and then he was rocked to sleep until he was 2 and I moved him to a twin bed and would lay with him until he slept. He would NOT let something drop. His tantrums were usually about something small. His first ever was because he wanted to cut his own fingernails and I wouldn't give him the clippers - he was barely 2. His worst was because he wanted to go say bye to a friend...but screamed it at me instead of asking if he could, so I said no. Nothing was ever his fault. If he lost a game, someone cheated. If he lost a video game, the game cheated. At about age 3 he was in a pre-school program, and he had a complete meltdown because he was doing a maze, went over a line, and the teacher told him to just ignore it and finish, instead of giving him a clean paper to start over. A perfectionist like you wouldn't believe. Tantrums weren't the type you'd ignore and they'd stop...they'd go for an hour and if you walked away he'd grab you, but if you tried to touch him he'd fight you. Exhausting. But you know, I had never been around young children. I thought that was on the extreme side of normal. [/QUOTE]
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