Its just been one of those days… my daughter is fighting me tooth & nail this morning. Everything is a drawn out knock down battle followed by a tantrum. We all have bad days; I guess our children are no different.

But when your normally happy-go-lucky child becomes a screaming, hitting & pinching child it makes the day much harder. I hate these days… I wish that like a storm you could predict its arrival by the dark clouds in the sky. These moods of my daughters have no warnings; I usually just get hit with them first thing in the morning.

Today instead of waking up happy she woke up bloody mad. Just like storms sometimes they are loud, messy but quick to leave and make way for the sunshine. And sometimes they last all day. You never can tell. She fought her morning diaper change and fought just about everything. She wanted on my lap & then off my lap. She wanted yogurt and then threw a fit when I did not let her open it. She fought getting dressed; she fought getting out of the bath I hoped would soothe her.


We did holding time and she raged until I thought she could not rage anymore and then she continued to rage more. Days like today are good at making me feel as if I can do nothing right for her. She is seething mad at me, she screams and hits. I wonder on days like this what’s going on in her 21-month old brain. Is it just an off day or is it something more. I think it’s something more.

These bad moods may follow an outing where she met new people or has been out of her element. I can’t think of anything to link to this behavior in her recent routine. It’s hard when she pushes me away when I know she needs me the most. I can only hope that when she wakes up from her nap that the sun is shining again.