Hello everyone.....

Just want to throw something out here to you all to see what you think. With this being a gentle parenting site, I am sure that some of you will agree that labelling babies is totally wrong - well, I think that it is anyway.

Anyway, our little miss is.... how can I put it, quite a challenge. She knows what she wants, when she wants it...... like NOW mummy. Or 5 minutes ago would have been better, thank you very much!

DH is a feisty person, I can be but am (usually) more laid back on the outside, I generally internalise my anxieties so people think I am cool as a cucumber. HA!

Do you think that temperament is all genetic?

For example, when watching for her tired signs (and I do WATCH very closely for ages), she displays them for maybe 2-3 minutes, then she cracks it. DH agrees that we don't have much of a window of opportunity to get her down - I usually have to watch the clock more than I'd like to as she just cracks it really quickly. Could this just be to do with her temperament? Also, she bores very very quickly and again, cracks it, so I have to watch her boredom signs closely so that I can move her onto her next activity.

I am so sick of hearing people ask me if she is an "easy" or "good" baby. She is neither good or bad - she's a BABY! I hate to say that she is good or bad because that suggests to me that she is behaving purposely a certain way - and she doesn't have the cognitive ability to do that.

I'm not sure where I am going with this post, I've been meaning to post it for ages though to get some opinions on what you guys think about labelling babies.

She isn't an easy baby but she isn't particularly difficult either - having a baby is an overall challenge isn't it? Isn't that the case for ALL of them? Isn't this the one thing that ALL babies have in common? Or do people have "good, easy babies?"

Thanks for reading.
Sue x