May 22nd, 2010 | 
Author: My sweet angelic little son decided overnight that he is now a kicking, screaming, temper tantrum throwing brat. We were able to avoid the “terrible two’s” for seven months, it sure was nice while it lasted. In the past week we have had a tantrum over leaving Red Robin, multiple tantrums over being put in a shopping cart and today the mother of all tantrums and we have no idea what it is over. We’ve been trying all the methods the experts recommend and here’s where we’re at.
Ignoring the child
We have tried ignoring him but after thirty minutes of tantrum from a kid that won’t back down he is hard to ignore. I might as well be standing underneath a landing airplane, once he gets going he is louder than any jet engine.
Give your child some space
Another failing method for dealing with my son. He follows you around so he makes sure you know how ticked off he is. Today we tried giving him space in his room and I write this listening to twenty minutes of non stop screaming.
Create a Diversion
All I can say is hahaha! The diversion is met with screams of no or the diversion being hurled across the room.
Hugs
All I’m going to say is two busted lips from a hard headed little boy
Offer Food
Ummm OK, let him learn from an early age if I throw a fit Mommy is going to give me a cookie. No thanks.
Speak Calmly
We have tried the calm approach and talking to him in a soothing voice to find it is a waste of time, he is screaming too loud for him to hear us.
Remove the child from the situation
We tried taking the approach of removing him from the situation, who thought of this? Seriously, the kid has started throwing fits because he knows that he gets his own way by doing so. He is out of the cart, in the car and usually on his way back home.
My daughter had her moments but her tantrums were nothing compared to whatever takes over my son when he has his. The joys of raising kids!
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Ya I don’t know what gets in to them. I had my fare share of dealing with tantrums and still have. Once I sat on a mall bench for almost 45minutes watching my daughter rolling on the floor screaming and kicking the floor, just because I said she can’t touch something in the store. At the end I asked my son to ask her to play and she stopped. I know it’s unbearable to watch them screaming and ignore them. I don’t ignore but sit there with a firm face and say, this is not wrong but we can stay like this as long as you like. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
Ignoring worked with one type of my son’s tantrums. He used to cry and then stop breathing until he was purple, if he didn’t get what he wanted. You can imagine how scary is watching that. Our family Dr. assured me he won’t be suffering any brain damage for this and if I ignore him he will get out of this stage within 6months. It was hard, but the minute he started I would turn and not look at him directly, just made sure he was safe, it stopped in 4 months.
Good lock