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To ask if anyone knows how to get a toddler to stop screaming

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Inim · 05/09/2015 08:16

And screaming and screaming and screaming. High pitched actual screaming.
Oh mum your making a coffee? I want coffee? What!? I'm not allowed coffee im gunna scream.
My duplo isnt doing as I wish. I'm gunna scream.
When he's excited, happy, angry, sad, bored, tored he SCREAMS.
And has massive tantrums all the time, every day.
Every time I go to soft play or swimming he's the only 2 year old throwing a tantrum.
When I'm cooking his dinner he stands at the doorway and SCREAMS at me the whole time.
Even just warming up milk in the microwave for him makes him scream because he wants it right away.
How do I make this stop and get him to chill out a bit, before I go insane?
Or is this just going to happen till he's 4ish

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IDismyname · 05/09/2015 08:18

Ignore, ignore and ignore.

Buy earplugs. And ignore some more. Grin

This too, shall pass.

SoupDragon · 05/09/2015 08:19

You can lock them in an underground bunker in your garden. That works.

It is, however, frowned upon by social services.

Bullshitbingo · 05/09/2015 08:23

Your post gave me chills. I too have a screamer. She's three now though and it's become a lot less frequent, maybe once or twice a day. Just hang in there, nothing I ever did made a difference, telling her off, time outs, remonstrating, ignoring....
Just have to wait til they're older or your eardrums give out, sorry.
This too shall pass Flowers

TheMotherOfHellbeasts · 05/09/2015 08:23

Chocolate buttons, just one as a tantrum is about to start then distract him with the duplo again. Works like a charm with DS and he'll sit and play nicely for a good half an hour to an hour. I only employ it when I really have to get something done, but it works very well Grin

Sighing · 05/09/2015 08:24

Earplugs. If he's screaming, he's breathing. So just ignore and don't give the behaviour any attention.

slightlyconfused85 · 05/09/2015 08:26

No way is he the only 2 year old throwing a tantrum; you just don't notice the others!
Second ignore ignore ignore. It's a (horrible) phase.

nottheOP · 05/09/2015 08:26

If you're going to scream you can play in your room on your own. And repeat ad fin

CigarsofthePharoahs · 05/09/2015 08:27

I have a 17 month old who is a screamer. He just can't communicate in any other method and if I don't work out what he needs - SCREAM!
And as for waking up after nap time, well that's the best excuse ever to scream. I had a two hour marathon about that last week.
There are times when I quite understand why the Victorians relied on laudanum so much.
Sigh. Breakfast is over and he wants to get down. Scream!

Loki17 · 05/09/2015 08:39

I would tell the child to shop screaming and then ignore. DD used to scream, id tell her to stop screaming (in a gentle way, no shouting) and then she's start tantrum in or crying. I'd walk away and start reading aloud. Within seconds she'd be by my side listening. Or I'd sing a song very loudly (worked well at the supermarket) and she'd end up laughing at me. My dd screaming is a bit of a rage trigger for me so it helped to keep me calm more than anything.

goawayalready · 05/09/2015 08:46

i tell him no it doesn't work but it looks like im doing something Grin

i removed him from a play area because he just wouldn't shut the fuck up yesterday he has a loud drilling scream that goes right through you and he slaps and daddy or nanny has taught him to spit so i took him home he was asleep within ten minutes then he woke up and screamed again Sad

Darkchocolatebuttons · 05/09/2015 08:51

Make them laugh? So, a quick tickle, raspberry, re-direct them and go back to what you need to do.

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