My DS is shortly to be three. Until about an hour ago I thought I'd seen every type of tantrum he could throw at me, and I felt I had seen it all with the 'terrible twos.'
Until.... About an hour ago I collected him from pre-school.mthey mentioned he seemed tired. He is, but he was fine until he got in his car seat, when he then dissolved into hysteria. It was like a scene from the exorcist. He was using every ounce of energy to scream, and cry, and it was that kind of cry where they almost can't breathe for the hysteria. I managed to secure and settle him enough to make the three minute drive home (country roads, I cannot walk him there and back despite the short distance) but by the time we got in the house he was soaked in sweat, eyes bloodshot, face red as a beetroot, still screaming. It's the first time I've ever seen him like this, as he was almost 'in another zone'. There was no communicating with him and it was as though he couldn't hear or see me for rage. Then, as I had carried him from the car and was trying to calm him, he basically started using me as a punch bag. I mean, he's two, so it wasn't exactly brutal, but It was very 'anger-fuelled' and I actually felt frightened and scared, more as this was so unusual. He hit me about ten or eleven times, all the while just in this red rage. I kept trying to talk to him and talk through it, or turned my back and walked in the other direction, but he just kept going until he eventually seemed to have no energy and slumped on me in a heap. He is now totally exhausted and asleep on the couch but I feel like that was some sort of horrible dream. I have literally never seen him like this.
Has anyone else's child had a tantrum like that? How do you handle it? I feel completely overwhelmed.
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DS's tantrum.... Am I alone?
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notsurehowtodothis · 23/01/2017 16:05
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