Scream a little bit and have the odd tantrum?
Our little boy does. Started at 11 months and that was a few weeks ago. Seems like he does it partly to get attention, when he feels clingy (i.e. you leave the room), when he's teething, when he doesn't enjoy being changed and/or when he sometimes feels like it etc.
But according to our childminder, this is abnormal behaviour that she cannot deal with. Apparently she's not know a child do this in 20 years! WTF? It's upsetting the other 2-3 kids she looks after, and now 2 parents have 'complained'. So much so that she's asked us to find someone else to look after him.
Sure, he has his moments but virtually every parent we've spoken to says he's just doing what little boys do. He'll grow out of it blah blah.
Our approach lately has been to totally ignore him (if we know he's not in pain etc); no eye contact, no communication, nothing. He then gives in and finds something fun to do at which point we make a fuss of him.
Are we being unreasonable/odd? Or is she just looking for an easy life? Seems strange behaviour from her because she's fantastic with the kids and seems a natural. But maybe she does want it easy.
