Just wondered what you guys do if you have any young SC who cry for mummy when they are ill or if they get cranky because they aren't getting their own way?
My DSS has had a run of being ill quite a lot and one time we went to DP's Dad's for the night and DSS was pretty ill, vile cold etc and spent all night screaming the place down for mummy and we ended up driving back home in the middle of the night to take him back to his mums. Felt like a real failure! :(
At the moment he gets a bit sulky if he's being told not to do stuff (like not to climb on the metal bedframe or bounce on the sofa, put toys away nicely) and says things like 'I want to go back to mummys house NOW!'
I've recently been reading 'How to talk so that kids will listen...' and have been trying things like 'I know it must be hard when you are away from your mummy, the problem is she is at work/asleep/not at home right now so we will take you back home later on.' And getting him to repeat back to us where mummy is so he understands and stops asking (as sometimes he just keeps on crying for her for hours).
I know it's tough for little ones to be away from mummy, esp as they are with her most of the time. It's always pretty sucky too to feel like he's not having a good time with us.
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What do you do when they keep crying for mummy?
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Woozlemum · 02/04/2011 16:42
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