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[quote=Anonymous]It's a personality thing, OP, perhaps facilitated by parenting style.  But definitely personality.  And not completely abnormal.  I have a nephew like this.   My sister was visiting once when he had what she called a "meltdown" - which seemed to consist of crying quietly for 5 minutes because his train was broken.  Some cuddles from mommy and all was forgotten.

My DD1 is 3, and I swear she had her first full-on meltdown before she turned 1 - screaming and flailing and refusing to be distracted when i took something away from her - a penny, i think.  And somewhere around 2.5, she went absolutely haywire for awhile - violent biting shrieking hitting over any restriction at home.  Now, at just-turned-three, she seems to be over some sort of hump.  She'll still throw one or two tantrums/week but they're not the full violent fits she was having 6 months to a year ago and they're usually pretty predictable (up past her bedtime, refused dinner, etc).

DD2 is more even-keeled, at least at age 16 months.    She lets me know when she is mad, to be sure, but i have seen the kind of emotional loss of control we had with DD1 by that age.  perhaps she is saving it for her 2s, like a normal kid.

Once when my mom complimented my "unflappability" with DD1, I admitted that i had kind of secretly assumed my kids would be pretty laid back.  Because i am.  As a mother of 4, she laughed and laughed and laughed.  [/quote]

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