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Screaming tantrums...oh no.

Jessica - posted on 12/10/2011 ( 3 moms have responded )

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My son is barely three, and he's started screaming/shrieking and crying when he doesn't get his way. Any little thing will do it.

Spankings, time-outs, soft talking, holding? Doesn't work. I don't give in to what he wants, however, and I don't yell back at him.

If this continues, however, I think the guy who lives below us is gonna call the cops. I can only imagine how hearing a toddler scream and scream sounds to someone who doesn't know/understand the predicament.

Any advice would be awesome.
~Bye!

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Kelly - posted on 12/10/2011

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My kids also are not allowed to scream where we can hear them. They have to sit in the bedroom, or bathroom and work out their tantrum on their own.

Sarah - posted on 12/10/2011

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Here is my rule with screaming....If I tell you no and you decide to tantrum about it I will walk away and ignore you. If you decide to scream for attention then you are put into your room to scream for as long as you want, but you MUST STAY in YOUR ROOM until you are done screaming. I find that they scream less when there is no one around to hear them scream.

Kelly - posted on 12/10/2011

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Ignore it. My youngest will be 3 in February and she does the same thing. One word she doesn't like and she's off on a tangent, down to screaming "You're choking me!" in a blood curdling voice in public if we so much as grab her hand to bring her along.
He's trying to get attention, negative attention, I don't know why, but it's normal. But let him keep going until he's so upset he doesn't know what to do because he's accomplished nothing. And then he'll be huggable again, and maybe even say "I'm sorry."

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