My 2 1/2 yr old drives me crazy when she's hungry. she tells me "I'm very hungry mommy" and then when i give her food she won't eat. she'll ask for a particular food, then i give it too her and she won't eat it. I know its normal for her to do this, but is it normal for me to get hateful feelings? I mean I dread feeding her.....i want to rip my hair out of my own head!!!!!!!!!!!! I still love her though, by the way.
You need to be very careful about giving off negative feelings of frustration because you may make her anxious as she is going through this normal process, which could possibly make her have anxieties about food later in life. Please talk to her pediatrician if you think you really need help in handling this. Or google up websites about children and eating patterns to learn how normal your daughter is! Hang in there!
Okay, first off, the person above you was joking. Probably. Second, even though people love their kids more than anything, they can still find them to be frustrating. Parenthood isn't all cuddles and fuzzies, and this woman isn't a bad parent just because she gets upset at her two-year-old. Two-year-olds are tough to handle sometimes because they like to test your boundaries. There's a reason for that "terrible twos" cliche.
I babysit a 2.5 yr old and FINIKY doesn't begin to cover it. Consider though that, at that age, kids usually have the attention span of a Ferret, so it is not that they don't want to eat, or even that they are TRYING to drive you crazy - it's just that they get easily preoccupied with other things going on Around them.
She'll grow out of it.
Now if you start wanting to tear HER hair out - get away and seek help.
Everyone needs a cool down time.
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