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Poll: Temper Tantrums
I'm not sure if we've started the temper tantrum stage or not but I'm thinking we're nearing that age. The past couple of nights have been insane....where has my baby gone? At first I chalked it up to teething but I'm not so sure now that we have mastered the fake cry. So....
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AND....what approach worked best for you? Ignore, time-out, etc.? (obviously the approach will depend on age but I thought I'd ask anyways)
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Re: Poll: Temper Tantrums
I *thought* they started around 15mo. I found out as we neared 3 that I was wrong. Those earlier fits were just meltdowns due to frustration. Frustration that she couldn't communicate or frustration that we wouldn't let her have what she wanted.
A temper tantrum is when she is MAD. Red-faced with anger.
Ignoring or redirecting works best for me. I have seen Joseph have a meltdown and I have seen him throw a temper tantrum.
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Ditto this. Time out doesn't work for us. She thinks it's a game and goes and puts herself or her Dora dolls in time-out. She loves watching Dora so if she's having a bad tantrum I tell her she can't watch Dora all day and that usually does the trick!
I *thought* Mason's started around 18 months but 2 days before his 2nd birthday (just last week) we had the temper tantrum of all temper tantrums! I had never seen him act like that EVER. He was yelling "NOooooo NOoooooo" at the top of his lungs and it was HORRID!
I have part of it on video! lol
Ugh! Now! Just the other day, DS had a meltdown b/c I wouldn't let him have something. It was an all out screaming fit - complete with red face and tears streaming. I was thinking "who is this kid? What happened to the laid back little one that I had?"
I just calmly rubbed his back until he calmed down and tried to distract him with something else. I really didn't know what else to do! lol.
Yeah, no kidding. LOL
For Mathis (And Tru when he was younger) redirection works best. I think until they are at least 2, closer to 2.5, time out doesn't really register the way it should. With Tru, TO is very effective BUT only when we are consistent ourselves and do what we say we are going to.
Honestly, the best discipline technique for me revolves around my child's love of television. He would castrate himself if I asked him to as long as it meant the TV stayed on.
I said SS, just because I had 2 kids each with totally different toddler temperaments. They were both easy babies, but then Sam let loose when he was about 20 months. Hannah didn't hit hers until about 2 1/2, and they were doozies. But it didn't last long. She rarely throws tantrums now. She's definitely my easy child...so far.
As far as dealing with it, with Hannah we were able to ignore it and she was able to move through that stage pretty quickly. With Sam, we tried ignoring but he would get so worked up that we had to intervene. Sometimes it would take 30 minutes or more to calm him down. There were times we'd have to hold him tightly to get him to calm down--it would piss him off at first, but he would eventually calm down. I still am not sure how we got through those times. It was a rough, rough time.