Toddler Tantrums

shellyamf · January 2016

Lily has definitely been hitting the tantrum phase in these past few months. Today was her worst yet and it was in Target while grocery shopping. Yep, I was the parent with the screaming kid today. I was proud of how I handled it even though it made me want to cry (darn hormones).

Guessing age three is going to be FUN! Haha.

Penguin12912 · January 2016

Sorry about the rough time in Target. Abby definitely had me upset after I tried to put her to sleep for her nap for over an hour and she just wouldn't go down. She was so super cranky after being up for hours in the middle of the night. I knew she needed sleep. I've seen and heard the term threenager used before. Maybe that is what is happening to them.

TaraW1979 · January 2016

Liliana has started to say no to the clothes I pick out for her. She even fights me on the socks I want her to wear! She is very stubborn!

Am12712 · January 2016

Caden has done that a time or two. It's just so much fun! He hates sitting in the carts but when it's just me and kids he doesn't have a choice. I just ignore him and carry on. He also gets super pickey about clothes. I give him choices and that seems to help some.

I hate to break that bad news but it's only going to get more fun when baby 2 arrives.

jtmh2012 · January 2016

I'm there too and he's only 14 months.

shellyamf · January 2016

I let her pick out her clothes or at least give her choices to pick from. Definitely a threenager attitude over here. With how sassy she is and the not listening.

Amity - I know, that's something I keep thinking about. Having the second one will bring out a few more tantrums from the first one I'm sure. ***reasons I don't want a third***

jtmh2012 · January 2016

shellyamf said:

Amity - I know, that's something I keep thinking about. Having the second one will bring out a few more tantrums from the first one I'm sure. ***reasons I don't want a third***

Reasons that right now he's a reminder why he may be an only.....lol

We're too old for this crap.

jjbmstinco · January 2016

Look into 123 magic.

I teach it for work and I have used it in my classroom.

Am12712 · January 2016

We had a humdinger of a tantrum today. Caden wasn't listening to me or his teacher at school. He wasn't staying in timeout so I told him we would leave. Oh lordy he wailed and when we got out to the parking lot he threw himself on the ground (in the rain while I was holding Emerson). It was so.much.fun.

shellyamf · January 2016

^sounds similar to what happened with Lily. It started with not listening and the screaming started when I said she would lose a privilege if she didn't start listening. And it just spiraled from there.

It's kind of funny when she throws a fit/tantrum while contradicting herself. At least it's funny in hindsight. Like when she doesn't want chicken for lunch but then throws a tantrum because she didn't get chicken for lunch.

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