Whipped them all soundly, and sent them to bed. A nation of child haters.

Orpheo

olly300 wrote: »

You seem to forget that people however old they are, are not the same.

On the contrary, I recognise this perfectly well.

lostinrates

I still have tantrums now occasionally. No one paid attention to me when I was two, no one does now, but it makes me feel better.

gravitytolls

lostinrates wrote: »

I still have tantrums now occasionally. No one paid attention to me when I was two, no one does now, but it makes me feel better.

Me too.:D

OP, you should've posted this in DT, a much classier lot of posters!

Orpheo

Sorry, what is DT?

olly300

lostinrates wrote: »

I still have tantrums now occasionally. No one paid attention to me when I was two, no one does now, but it makes me feel better.

Then obviously you aren't old enough yet.

If you are an elderly git of any gender and throw a tantrum people would pay attention.

lostinrates

olly300 wrote: »

Then obviously you aren't old enough yet.

If you are an elderly git of any gender and throw a tantrum people would pay attention.

Aha, attention will come? I'll keep practising then!

SingleSue

Youngest went through the terrible two's at age 5-6 ish as that was his emotional age at the time (at age 2, he was completely closed off from everything mentally - we were all invisible). His frustration was not to do with parenting but the fact that the world was a weird place, he was expected to do 5-6 year old ish things but his brain was not quite there...in short, he was terribly confused by the outside world and this caused his frustration.

I was horrendous for temper tantrums, I did all the feet stamping and one day, completely frustrated at my mum for not helping me get my swimming costume off in a timely manner, ripped the swimming costume off my body...I suppose I was around 3 or 4 at the time as it is one of my earliest memories but I also remember being really upset afterwards as it was my favourite swimming costume.

My parents always called me a difficult toddler and child as they just couldn't keep my brain busy enough for me to be settled and I would demand ever more information from them, information they thought not appropriate for my age. So to ease my frustration (and their stress), they put me in a playgroup from the age of two where I thrived and enjoyed until they closed when I was four.....mum and dad got very stressed again.

Thankfully, starting school was just around the corner (I started school at age 4 years and 5 months full time) but reception year was awkward, I was so far ahead of all the other children that I quickly got very bored and frustrated....I didn't want to learn the cat sat on the mat as I had learnt that years before, I didn't want to do the same reading the others were doing as it was far too simple and because of that, created an awful scene in the classroom (hmm, painting didn't go too well either when they tried to make me paint with my right hand - I painted the teacher instead in a strop and after that, they allowed me to use my left hand). So they challenged me, going through all the books they had in the school until I started to struggle with words....they were the books for the year 6 (or 4th year junior as it was then) children.

So sometimes, tantrums are not through bad parenting or from being spoilt but because a child is hyper intelligent and is craving information and in the abscence of that information, becoming extremely bored and unsettled.

By the way, I still have tantrums now if I can't have my information...the children always know when mum has been denied her brain salving info as I am like a bear with a sore head and very stroppy!

Orpheo

Interesting post Singlesue.

sjaypink

JOHN1982 wrote: »

This thread is amazing! Ha ha! :rotfl:

A perfect parent preaching to the 'abyssmal' masses! I'd love to meet Little Miss Orpheo and see how she turned out ... how old is she now?!

Hmm, kinda my thoughts too....

Do I have to read the other 3 pages to find out just how many wonderfully rounded and successful adults Orpheo has thus far produced? :cool:

lucylucky

Orpheo wrote: »

OK. I can accept that you didn't read the body of what I wrote, what I find odd is that you think that qualifies you to criticise it and that you keep popping up to say so. It is like refusing to eat in a restaurant because you don't like what they've named it, your choice but how can you criticise the food? For all you know, the body of my text might refute what is in the opening line, it doesn't, but it is not an unprecedented device for a writer to use. Lucy, as you are so simple, let me state for you that I do not literally think that we are a nation of child haters, it was a deliberately emotive line. Sheesh.

At this point Lucy, as you failed to do me the courtesy of reading my post before expressing an opinion, I shall refrain from responding to any further posts of yours. It is like playing this game, but without the fun:

http://www.addictinggames.com/whackamole.html

I have edited post #42 to clear up your confusion.

There is no confusion at all.

You started a thread making a fallacious statement. Now it appears you are struggling to justify your pathetic posts.

Your analogy (regarding restaurants) is neither accurate not appropriate.

You criticise without knowledge.