Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Socialization
So....Blakely has terrible social skills. I don't mean the occasional fit, or passing gas (or worse...) on someone's lap, or gooping on someone's shirt... I mean she will be in a good mood, and if someone holds her besides me, Stephen, or my mom, she SCREAMS. Any other moms have this problem? Sometimes she even cries if they just get too close to her. Especially older men. My poor grandpa and neighbor, Ralph. Quiet old man from across the street, barely ever heard him talk, and we went over on a nice day. He got up and came over and talked to Blakely way more than he's ever talked to me, and about 10 seconds later out came the bottom lip. I know it's not like it's my fault or anything, but I feel rude for her. Like I need to awkwardly apologize and make up some excuse "oh...she's just tired..." But really she's just afraid of you. My grandpa has tried to hold her twice and literally as soon as he picks her up she screams and is almost inconsolable for quite a while. I think I feel bad because I know how it feels to be the one screamed at. It's a pretty bad feeling to take a happy baby and be the one responsible for ruining it. Has anyone else had to socialize their babies?
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Campbell did that with men who had deep voices or talked too loud. I always felt so bad and like I needed to apologize too!! She did grow out of it - for the most part. Normally if she can see me then she is fine going to whoever!
ReplyDeleteLandon doesn't do that, but Jen's had that problem with Alexa! She's a mama's girl to the core! She's finally starting to get more acceptable of us staff girls holding her, but usually only if Jen is in sight!!
ReplyDeleteAnd...we should hang out sometime! Screaming baby and all :)
Sounds exactly like Hattie.....she just recently started to like people.
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