We took Baylee to the pediatrician yesterday since we've been struggling with her behavior the past few weeks. After 75 minutes of explaining everything to him, the ped. says B's behavior is perfectly normal. She's just a strong willed child. Sigh. While it's nice to know nothing is theoretically wrong with her, it's a bit frustrating too. She's on the extreme end of what's considered normal. Ped. said we can't control three things with toddlers--food, peeing/pooping, & sleep. If we try to make a big deal out of those things, we're going to have power struggles. In the meantime, the only thing we can do is be really consistent, model the behavior we want her to display, & just keep offering food we want her to eat. If she lives off of yogurt, it's fine. Her weight is within the acceptable limits (26.6 lbs. & in the 30th percentile) & still on the same curve since her 1 year visit.
The only recommendations the ped. had was a book for us "No" by David Walsh & trying to figure out how to give me a break more often since I'm completely burned out. We have a list of child psychologists (not psychiatrists) to scope out as well. The ped. suggested having a psychologist see how we interact with B so we can get some insight on what discipline tactics to use with her & maybe work on how to communicate with her since my personality & B's are completely different. 1-2-3 Magic seems to work, but maybe there is something else we can do as well. We just need to figure out the insurance on a psychologist.
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