Hi everyone, just wondering if anyone has any advice. It would be very gratefully received!
I have an issue with 22 month old DS at the moment in that whenever we sit down to a meal he gets really irate when he's finished and I make him sit for a couple of minutes whilst I clean up. It's only ever 4-5 minutes, I try and talk to him the whole time and have even tried giving him a cloth to wipe the table so he can join in. Nothing works.
Today he started high pitched screaming when I was tidying his plate etc away so I calmly said that I wanted him to stop shouting and carried on clearing the table.
The screaming continued and he became really angry so I walked out of the kitchen and left him to calm down. I actually said, "I'm going until you calm down".
Because I didn't want to return whilst he was still screaming I ended up waiting 15 minutes until he was calm. The whole time he was really angrily screaming. I think I've messed up and feel really shitty for leaving him as long but I felt like I couldn't return to him as that would reinforce that screaming gets him what he wants.
It's an issue at nursery apparently as well. Does anyone have any tips? Should I just continue to leave him to it until he learns that his screaming has no impact?
Thanks guys. x
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I've really messed up this time . . . 22 month old tantrums
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AllesAusLiebe · 30/06/2020 13:33
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