Ds has always had the ability to 'meltdown' very quickly, since he was just over a year old..but I was hoping that he would grow out of it.
He is now 4 and has several short bursts (about 10minutes of screaming) a day over various small things. He won't be 'reasoned' with or distracted in most cases, and so I tend to put him somewhere safe and ignore him until he's calmer or sit on the floor and restrain him if we are out somewhere.
Yesterday he managed a 40 minute meltdown at dd's nursery, started biting my legs and pinching me (which isn't that unusual), stripping off his clothes and throwing his shoes, pushing and scaring his sister (the 'reason' for his tantrum was that he didn't want her to come home with us although it probably has more to do with life in general), and I was trying to reassure 1yr old dd whilst restrain ds sitting on a muddy path in the nursery garden.
Anyway, I was just wondering how common this sort of tantrum is - he has them at this level about once every couple of weeks but several smaller ones daily.
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Violent temper tantrums in 4 year old - how normal?
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bluebear · 13/09/2005 13:46
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