For those of us who have experienced the Terrible Two stage would more or less know what to expect.
It is as if all babies had gone through an Orientation course of some sort entitled, “How to (mis)behave during the Terrible Two” – They all behave in the same way!
And so, like the title goes, Baby Jayne has started exhibiting the very first standard behaviour of the Terrible Two stage, and that’s SCREAMING. As long as something doesn’t go her way or the way she wants it to, she screams. Sometimes it’s an emotional kind of scream. Other times, it’s more of a reflex – Her face remains motionless as she screams.
And thus begins the ‘I-refuse-to-share-my-toy’ stage as well. When we are in the church nursery nowadays, I’ve got to watch her very carefully lest she sees a toy she likes and attempts to snatch it away from the poor innocent baby who’s fiddling with it.
When she’s in a good mood, she might offer to share her toy with another kid nearby. But when she’s in one of those moods, she would hoard the toy she’s playing with. Anyone who tries to take it away from her will invite the screaming immediately.
But thankfully, even though she may be in this kind of state now, she is not beyond reason. I saw how she saw a kid playing with a toy she wants, so she brought another toy to trade with that kid in order to get the toy she wanted. (Not that she gave that kid a choice =P)
Now that I’ve got a kid who’s out of the Terrible Two, I really anticipate the day when Baby Jayne is out of it too! I know that life will be a lot better by then! Haha!
