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DS starts screaming in the parking lot (help!)

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This past week DS has started screaming when we get into a parking lot. This week it was the parking lot of the grocery store, and then a strip mall where I was stopping in to pick up our Christmas cards. As soon as we pull in, he just gets really upset and starts screaming. He has never done this. And the fit lasts well into the store. I have no idea whats going on. He just throws himself onto the concrete in the parking lot and then I try to put him in the cart and he starts flailing his arms and legs while screaming. 

 Help!!! 

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Re: DS starts screaming in the parking lot (help!)

  • la79alla79al member
    Too much Christmas shopping/prep?
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  • dragon_chicadragon_chica member

    The man hates shopping leave him alone!  Stick out tongue

    Give him something to look forward to afterwards.  Maybe say, "DS, we need to go buy some cards at the store.  After we buy the cards we'll go play at the park."  Then, if he starts going nutso again tell him that he needs to stop this behavior or you're going home and not going to the store AND the park.  And then follow through.  I know it would suck if you couldn't get that errand done but once home, if you can, wait a while (maybe an hour or two?) and then try again.  Say, "DS, you behaved very naughty when we got to the store so mommy couldn't go buy her cards and DS couldn't go to the park.  Did DS want to go to the park?  Ok, then let's try this again.  We're going to go to the store and then afterwards we'll go play at the park.  But if you start acting naughty again then we not going to try to go to the park or store anymore today."

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  • PolofskyPolofsky member
    I've started taking mine into the bathroom when we are out in public. It's my "outing" version of time out. I give them a warning first and if the behavior continues, we go to the bathroom. I don't sit them on the floor or anything, I stand in a corner of the restroom hold them but I use stern words/facial expressions and we stand there until they are done with the temper tantrum. We have now gotten to the point where MOST OF THE TIME I can just say, "if you keep this up, I'm taking you to the bathroom." and they know what that means and they quit.
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