Parenting

We were lucky: our daughter was a super well-behaved toddler. I don’t think that she threw more than three tantrums, although she always cried when it was time to leave something, especially if she made a new friend. She was just curious and inquisitive and very empathetic—which she still is as an eleven-year-old. I do agree, I also wished she’d taken longer naps, but whatev. In contrast, she was extremely difficult as an infant, being colicky to the point that we’d have to drive around for hours at a time so she’d go to sleep and the fits came way too often.