The Root of the Meltdown – Mom :(
It’s hard to acknowledge that you were the reason for a meltdown.
Not in the way you probably imagine.
Our son is always asking us to make a plan, repeat the plan, reconfirm the plan — over and over. After he came home from a fun day with Pop Pop yesterday, he jumped right in to asking what the plan was for Sunday. He asked if Daddy was taking him to Sesame Place – and I chimed in and said I was going to take him.
Most of the time Pop Pop or Daddy take him —-but even though Daddy is retired now I want to make sure he has a “weekend off” to be able to do stuff etc.. And while I hate to go when it’s cold out (I’m a wimp!), now that it’s nicer weather I enjoy spending the day with my boy.
But I could sense immediately that he wasn’t exactly thrilled with that plan.
And so as the hours passed, Eric kept asking to reconfirm the plan—but he seemed unsure of exactly what he wanted to do. We get to the point as parents that we will say YES to anything he wants to try and fend off the oncoming meltdown that is waiting – but that didn’t seem to work.
“Yes, we will go to Sesame Place.”
“Yes, we can go to Doylestown Chuck E Cheese.”
“Oh, you want to go to Middletown Chuck E Cheese – sure no problem, we can do that.”
“No Sesame place? Ok how about the zoo?”
Around and around we went until the looming meltdown came and was followed by:
Eric: “Daddy take you to Sesame Place?”
“Is that what you want? will that make you happy?”
Eric: “Yes.”
So, Daddy didn’t get the day off, and mommy has another notch in the book of bruised egos. I know I shouldn’t take it so personally. Eric has always created perfect scenes in his mind of what his day will/should look like. And once you do something one way- you need to always do it that way. So having mommy take him threw off his plan he had in his head.
In my head, I understand it.
In my heart…well that’s hard.
—— Mrs B.
(Picture is of Eric turning his frown upside down after his meltdown yesterday. Even after Daddy said YES to taking him, he was still kinda teetering in meltdown mode. I remembered the body sock -that he got for Christmas but we had never tried — and I have to say I was shocked and how it seemed to quickly help him. He loved the pressure, and extra tickles mommy was giving him while he was in it…. and I loved the big smile!)
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