just wondering how all the november moms are handeling the terriable 2's?!

Silver - posted on 05/26/2012

We have a time out bench. If his temper tantrums get to where hes throwing things or hitting people he is on the bench for 2 minutes. He fought it so bad at first, but it has truely done wonders. Now if he starts I will either ignore him or ask if he wants to go to time out. which the answer to that is usually "no, no time out please mommy" Im actually pretty amazed at myself for being able to do the ignoring trick as i have very very little patience. I will ignore it for up to about 4 minutes, if he hasnt started calming down then, I'll say in stern (but not mean) voice "that is enough now" and he usually stops within seconds of that.

Like someone else said it helps to make sure they have the words to tell you want they want or whats wrong. Sign language was good for that back before he started talking a lot but now he says everything. With my son though, I have to quickly ask him whats wrong before the full out tantrum starts and then hope he calms down

Also (wow didnt mean to make it so long) If theres other people at the house, like a holiday or something, when he starts screaming and stuff, Ill quickly whisk him away and put him in bed then go sit in a chair and read. after a minute or 2 of screaming hell get out of bed come to me and say hes sorry. Ill talk to him, tell him why he cant act like that, then when we go back out to join people hell hug and say sorry to everyone in the room.

Brittany - posted on 05/10/2012

I'm in a similar boat. My daughter is almost 2.5 and my son is 4 months. My daughter throws fits like no tomorrow. Depending on the situation I either ignore it or put her in timeout. If we are out in public most of the time it ends in a timeout.

One thing I really try to do is introduce as many words as possible to her, so that she can express exactly what she is feeling. I found that if I calmly ask her what she needs, most of the time she'll at least calm down enough for me to figure out what is going on. It doesn't mean that she'll get what she wants, but she'll a least know what to do next time so that she does get it. That also helps with all of the whining.

I didn't bother with potty training prior to having my son. We are still working on it. But really I'm not in a huge rush. She didn't show any signs of being even remotely ready until recently

I've lucked out with my son. He is extremely quick to calm. They adore each other. It is so nice to see them play together.

GISELLE - posted on 05/06/2012

I'm in the same boat as you. I have a 2.5 year old daughter and a 6 month old son...let's just say it's TOUGH. I have found that the easiest way to deal with her tantrums are to ignore them. I don't care how many pple are staring at us in line in Walmart, if I can't hear you, I don't care. LOL. My son isn't colicky, but he is a very needy baby - total opp of my daughter when she was his age. So it def gets tough. Hang in there tho, I'm sure there's a light at the end of this seemingly never ending tunnel!