Describe your LO's tantrums :)

BabyCarryingVessel · January 2014

It's official, the girls are throwing very dramatic tantrums now! Please describe what tantrums are like in your house. What's an example of something that causes tantrums, and what do you do when it happens?

chricast · January 2014

I wish I could post videos. Last week Emma was throwing terrible tantrums because she wanted my ipad to watch her cartoon. Last night it was because we were driving home and she was hungry for dinner. She screams, cries, won't let me hold her or touch her nothing can distract her from what she wants.

stephcarter · January 2014

She screams "Noooooo mean mean mean nooooooooo" and she holds her fists up and squeezes them so hard her little hands shake. Some times she will slowly lay herself on the floor and yell. It's kind of funny. She sits down and then lays back so slowly.

Melidee82 · January 2014

@stephcarter was the slow recline learned from getting hurt when doing it quickly? Or has she always done it like this? My daughter has gone rigid and flung herself backwards so hard she hurts her head on the floor. On carpet she does OK but on the hardwoods she gets hurt. She hasn't done it in a while though so maybe she has learned from the bumps.

pb_bride · January 2014

DS usually throws himself backwards (I'm always there so he doesn't hurt himself). i just lower him to the floor and walk away. Trying to hold him is a losing battle - he'll scream and kick so hard that I'm afraid I'll drop him.

Tantrum almost always caused by change of activity, or if he doesn't get what he wants. For example we are at the park today and it's time to go home, and he doesn't like that. Or when it is time for nap but he wants to read books instead. I try to verbalize to him what we are about to do ahead of time - I repeat and repeat for a few minutes ("we're going home" or "it's time for bed") so that he has a little time for it to sink it. Sometimes that helps with avoiding the tantrum, sometimes it doesn't.

LexiSophie55 · January 2014

We have had thrown down tantrums for over 3 months.

If I take something away from him he is not supposed to have, he will throw himself down, kick, scream, headbutt, bite, etc. It is bad. He has given himself bumps and bruises by doing this.

He bit an endtable at Christmas and left teeth marks because I held the door shut so he couldn't open it anymore.

If I take him from a room and he doesn't want to leave, he will kick, fight, struggle, hit, push, until he is almost out of my arms. A few times I've barely caught him.

He is a handful.

AMT1107 · January 2014

DS also throws his head back (gave my dad a nice black eye one time). We make sure he doesn't hurt himself when throwing back, it's hard, he's quick. We told the pedi when we had his appointment she said to let him do it, don't give him positive or negative feedback. He'll eventually outgrow it.

He does this when we say no, don't let him have our phones or the remote. Basically, when he doesn't get his way. Another time is, when he is ready, he is ready, like at the grocery store, restaurants etc.

Ziegeficker · January 2014

Henry's tantrums are hilarious and contrived. I laugh at him when he throws them, because it's always for something ridiculous like that I won't let him drink day-old milk (sometimes he finds a sippy cup he hid the day before -- gross).

The other day he started to throw a fit because I wouldn't play with a toy with him while I was getting ready for work...he threw himself down and started crying and then looked up at me coyly to make sure I was watching. After confirming that I was, he spiced it up with some head banging-like movement. Then he started kinda smiling to himself because even he knew he was full of shit.

LexiSophie55 · January 2014

I forgot to add I've had two fat lips from a headbutt. The same day as he bit the end table, earlier he headbutted me and gave me a fat lip.

Don't worry folks - we are trying for a sibling. Idiots....

BabyCarryingVessel · January 2014

My girls drop to the floor on their bottoms and wail at the top of their lungs with their heads down in a defeated fashion. From here, sometimes they'll throw themselves backwards and kick their legs while screaming. Other times they lie face down, flat on the floor and act as though I've beaten them. Last night Julie threw a whopper of a tantrum because I *gasp* walked past her when she wanted picked up. She laid flat on her stomach for probably 15 minutes sucking her thumb after she was done screaming. I kept inviting her to come to me, but she wouldn't even look at me! Finally she stood up and played happily.

A few things that set off tantrums are 1) not being picked up when it suits them 2) picking them up when it doesn't suit them 3) taking something away from them.

StefanieM522 · January 2014

Wesley has gone all of the above and today he actually headbut the floor. Usually only happens if something he shouldn't have gets taken away

stephcarter · January 2014

@Melidee82 she was never one to fling herself back hard. I have no idea where she learned it or why she started doing it!

Ziegeficker · January 2014

I'm glad I am not alone in suffering these tantrums. Ladies, I thought we had until at LEAST the age of two before we had to deal with these?! I was so naive...

I haven't had to deal with a tantrum in public yet, but when I face one I am sure I won't find it so amusing.

CnAnA · January 2014

She flings her whole self backwards. To complete this, she includes a high pitched squeal. Luckily they don't last very long. Only for 10-30 seconds at this point. I tell her "NO ma'am!" And then ignore her until she's done. If I need her to do something (clothes on, jacket on, whatever) once she is done with her initial fit I just grab her and do whatever. If I need her to stop doing something, I wait till after the fit then direct her somewhere else. My whole idea is ignoring it. She is very dramatic...when people are looking. Once she realizes she doesn't have an audience, she doesn't care.

tamararachel2 · January 2014

LO will scream, throw himself back and kick his legs on the floor. His face gets so red! Or sometimes if we tell him no, he pinches or bites...but mostly pinches. My MIL was fixing one of his stuffed animals and he wanted it. She told him "just a minute" and he lifted up the bottom of her shirt and pinched her skin! He's so mean! When he's kicking and screaming, I just let him lay there and tell him that he can scream all he wants. If we don't pay attention to it, he stops pretty quickly unless he's tired.

KarenW924 · January 2014

DS can do a great backbend when he's throwing a tantrum in my arms. When I am lying down, he will try to claw at my face if he doesn't get what he wants.

LaurenBullock · January 2014

Tantrums normally start because I tell her no. The main one to set her off is No No Anzleigh you can't do your front roll on the hard floor. Gets us every time. But her tantrums are not loud she looks at me stomps her foot and holds her breath. Once she sees that I am not going to give in she normally stops. Or when she starts to loose color. It gets VERY OLD!

ThatWasAHoot · January 2014

Our LO doesn't really have what I'd consider tantrums yet. If I tell her "Nono," though, it is hilarious. She will drop whatever it is VERY quickly and crawl away, usually towards me. If I take something away from her that she shouldn't have, she cries and does the bottom lip thing.
But having an older toddler having tantrums all of the time just puts her innocence into perspective for me, I think. I am always telling the kids in my little daycare, "She is a baby. She doesn't know!" Because, really, she doesn't yet. Too cute.

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