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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you 100% positive your older child wasn't like this, too? Sometimes I think my second child (now 15 months) is so clingy and high maintenance compared to my daughter (almost 4 now), but then I think about and I think the difference was just that I had more time and energy when my daughter was that age. And also that I've just blocked some things out of my mind.[/quote]

I've thought a lot about this and while I'm sure a little of it was that i was just able to do whatever made #1 happy, he also just found most everything delightful.  When he was about the same age we went on a long weekend trip - the travel turned into a delayed disaster and while it was tiring keeping him enertained, he rolled with it with no meltdowns.  At the resort we went to, he was happy for hours in the pool or sandbox or hanging our in our condo.  I just attempted a 1 hour away trip with DS2 and he whined the whole car ride, whined the whole time in the pool, whined being held by the pool, whined that he couldn't throw everything no the floor, etc etc etc and there was no just finding something to happily engage him in.  EVERYTHING was not what he wanted, including both being held and not being held.  I so excited to get out of the house for 3 days for the first time in months and the whole thing just ended up being so miserable.  He has moments of happiness but it feels like when he's unhappy there is no making him happy and its just obnoxious cry, pulling on my shirt, writhing in my arms when i do pick him up etc on endless loop [/quote]

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