So the little one is in a sad mood from yesterday morning. Every time you look at her, her lips are quivering and either she is trying to hold her tears or actually crying. We asked her again and again and its obvious that even she does not know why she is crying, but because the idea of being sad without a known reason is kind of strange to her, she is trying to come up with reasons. The reasons swing between “I am crying because no one plays with me at school” to “I am crying because you give me 2 sandwiches for lunch while you know that I can only eat one”.
aww poor choti ! Why not treat her to something favourite. Icecream or anything else. Or just a break from the routine. Take her out somewhere as a family outing.
Kids can get distracted and cheer up pretty quickly then
OK, so yesterday was her B'day also and Niks and I bought her 2 gifts (niks made her pick, while mine was a surprise). That made her happy for maybe short 20 mins and then she sunk back into sadness. So yes, distractions do work, but distraction only works for few mins and then she goes back to her original mood.
Thing is that she has just amazing memory and its very hard for her to forget things. She knows all her stuff toys by the names she gave them and she has 30-40 of them. If she says something at night, even when she is half asleep, she would wake up with that thought and remind us immediately. I think that is why she is stuck in that mood as she keeps remembering that she is sad and that makes her sadder.
Enig, I will give her a hug from your side. Thanks for that.
I think talking to her teacher would be a great idea and breakin up her routine might help as well. Im amazed at her memory and maybe remembering she is sad and the attention she might be getting because of that might be making sad over and over again!! My twinkies love playing the im feeling this and that game because they literally bask in the different responses they get from adults around them. However, I hope the little munchkin cheers up and is back to being her happy slappy self!!!
But that worked temporarily, not that she was no enjoying it, but i got tired
This sunday, her birthday party is coming up. Lets see
She is a little diff girl than my older one. She is not much of an attention seeker, so I know that she is not going to do anything just to get attention - but you are right about talking to teacher and breaking up her routine. I am sure that will help.
Ultimately you have to find the cause but if there is no reason apparent then......
perhaps kind of radical but I did this once.....
I told Noor that I am sad because she is sad......and we were both sad together........the next day I told her how horribly my day went because I kept thinking about how sad she must be at school and I couldn't get my work done.
I don't remember exactly but I think the whole episode was done and dusted in 24 hours after I "became equally sad" due to her sadness.
@ the sandwich