I've been pondering this for a while.. and I have a theory.
Every month for about the last 6 months, Kenna gets in these cry baby emotional whiny moods. It only lasts about a week. There is no rhyme or reason to it. She's unrational, she's hysterical one minute.. happy the next.. being sassy/ back talking or just not listening. It's like she's a loose cannon, you never know what to expect. She cried for 10 minutes earlier, I'm guessing cause a bee flew by her and it scared her. She wont tell me exactly why she's upset.. she just hugs and hangs on me and balls her head off. The more I console her.. the more dramatic it gets. Finally I get mad and frustrated and demand her to calm down and she'll stop. Then she starts getting weeping again saying how much she misses her Papa and wants to go see him, ( even though she went over there last night to see him, then wanted to come home after an hour cause she missed me!). She even threw a temper tantrum this week because the other girls didn't want to play outside anymore. This is sooo unlike her, I can probably count how many temper tantrums this girl has thrown in her life time on 1 hand. She's having these crying spells 3, 4, 5 times a day. She's eating fine.. sleeping 12 or 13 hours a night and there is absolutely nothing new going on.
At first I thought.. well maybe this is because of baby H. but seriously he's not even here yet. All she talks about is how she wants him to come out now and see him and play with him, she is really really excited about everything. I've thought, maybe it's an attention thing.. but she still has all my attention, and even that doesn't help. I try to give her more.. and talk to her about how she feels and what's wrong, but I swear she just feeds into it. It's almost like she doesn't know what's wrong. My theory is.. that little girls have a monthly cycle too! They may not menstruate/have a period and all that jazz but they have an emotional cycle.. just like a woman would have pms. I have a bunch of little girls I watch in my daycare and it seems they all have this rough week every month. They are all between the ages of 4 and 6. I've been bringing it up to the other mom's and they are like "omg yes! I've been at my wits end with them and I don't even know what brought it on."
I don't know what it is.. but it's made my sweet, loving, well behaved little girl turn into this kid I desperately need a break from! I don't know what the problem is.. so I can't fix it :( I also don't want to feed into it either, and let her get what she wants by throwing a crying fit. It makes me feel heartless if I don't at least try to console her, because if it is a hormone thing and she doesn't know what's wrong.. I want to at least reassure her that I'm there for her.
She's only 4!!! I have a feeling I have some terrible teenage years coming my way. This is just more proof that my baby isn't a baby anymore. It's sad :(
