Oh my goodNESS! Kate is recently finding her self apart from the rest of us. And what we're discovering is that when she's on a rampage (you know, upset because you said she could go outside once her shoes were on or that she could color on paper instead of her hand), you better WATCH OUT!! She's a little destructo machine! Literally, Collin could flop and wail for an hour straight, but he never threw anything besides his own body. And Owen always opted to move on after a few moments, so he was never been much of a tantrumer. But KATE. She's a whole other story, and I had to take her straight to her room to finish this tantrum ...
By the time she was done, nearly an hour had passed, the bed had been stood on end, all the books strewn across the floor, socks and toys dumps out of their baskets, clothes pulled from their shelf in the closet, dirty clothes littered throughout the room, the chair and ottoman toppled, and she was sooooo spent. She (and I) cleaned it all up before she was welcome to come out of her room. Thank goodness, she hasn't done it again ... (that was about three weeks ago).
Since the whole scenario blew me away (I admit it was somewhat amusing, too - is that weird of me??), I went straight to some research. One article in particular caught my attention. "There's a silver lining to every temperament, and it's your job (parents) to nurture her special character."The Good News: "Dramatic kids live their life big, and their passion means they'll go out into the world with determination and enthusiasm." Also: "Kids who wear their emotions on their sleeve are usually up-front about their feelings in other areas of life."
*Quotes from Parents magazine January 2010.
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