Does anybody have a "chronic cryer"??
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| Sun, 02-27-2005 - 12:43am |
Hello everyone--I've been gone for about a month and a half--we were all sick, and I ended up landing in the hospital briefly. We're all on the mend now (YAH!), and I'm more worried than when we were all in and out of the Dr's ever other day. My twin boys will be 5 in May (their big brother just turned 8), and one of them has starting crying at EVERYTHING. I don't mean whining--I mean tear running sobbing shaking crying. If you tell him to wait a second for juice, he cries. If you say it's time to turn off the t.v., he cries. If, God forbid, he should actually get fussed at in any way shape or form, he cries all day. It starts without warning, and it just doesn't want to stop. I'm at my whit's end. The way he's acting, you'd think he's having rocks thrown at him in the yard--he stays home with me all the time, never goes to a sitter, or a day care, never leaves my sight for much more than a few minutes, or I'd be thinking that someone had hurt him, because he seems REALLY upset when the crying starts. At first I thought it was just some phase, and maybe he just wanted more attention--he is a twin after all, and with three young boys things stay pretty hectic. But now, he seems sort of like he's becoming withdrawn, and the crying is only getting worse. I'm almost hysterical worrying about it, but I also don't want to go way overboard trying to stop it, in case it IS just a phase, and I'm just making it worse playing into it. The other side of it is that the constant crying is making everyone insane, and I'm afraid that my patience is running completely out, so I probably seem irritable to him, even though I'm trying not to. His brothers are even tired of it--which is just making it worse, because now I have one twin not wanting to play with the other. When the crying starts he's totally unreasonable (imagine that), so just talking to him about it has proven worthless. Has anyone else seen this in their pre-school age kids?? Did it ever stop?? I don't know if I'm going to lose my mind or my hearing--but one or the other is going to have to go. . .
Any ideas would be great. . .
Angela

He cries about everything. If it is just a no, or something silly, he cries.
I wish it would end. He will be 6 in a week and it is just silly for a child his age to cry about things like that.
I don't have advice, but wanted to let you know you are not alone.
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