does your three year old scream and i mean scream whgen can't do something

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eg a duplo building falls down

yogurt tub tips over on high chair

never did this much when smaller but now when i thought tantrums would be going down he scream his head off and turns blue from frustration when trying to do things and they don't work

curious if other three year old do this tooscream not a simple scram but utterly insane and loud

Yes, and it drove me insane! Ds1, now four used to scream about everything, especially building blocks falling over etc. MUCH better now, still screams occasionally, but nowhere near as bad as before.

DS1 (3.6yrs) does this. Drives me absolutely insane. If his train track needs slotting back into place (which he can do) or you put the wrong Thomas DVD in, he just screams and cries.

I wouldn't mind but he's incredibly articulate so it's not as if he can't express himself verbally.

I wonder it might be a boy thing - little girls of his age don't seem to do it.

Oh yes. And ttalloo I have a girl :)

And like your son she is very articulate and can usually reason/discuss her way out of things.

In our case tis usually tiredness (borderline needing a daytime nap but if she does we pay later in the evening) or she might take offence that her older sister is allowed/competent to do something and this frustrates her (and me) immensely.

I knew as soon as I'd posted that someone would pop up and say that they had a girl who did it!

Ignore me I have a "thing" about people saying "girls do this" and "boys are like that"

(quite possibly because my own dds are very loud and confident and not stereotypical at all, however they do wear dresses/skirts and are a bit of a mix)

thanks interestingly my littl eone is also very articulate but has always struggled with playing alone - and now this screaming when he can tlak very advancedly for his age!!!

;)

I've been thinking about this overnight and I wonder if it might have something to do with DS1 being a first child.

DS2 is nearly two and also very articulate for his age, but he does understandably default to screaming when things go wrong, which DS1 did at the same age, and then outgrew. DS1 does tend to copy DS2 (I think because of our reactions to what DS2 does - for example, when we were beside ourselves with excitement when DS2 started crawling, DS2 went back on all fours for a while), so maybe he's seen that screaming gets results, and has decided to try it.

Having posited this fairly ropey thesis, though, I still can't think what to do to cure DS1 of his screaming fits!

hmm nice theory!!!

with me it just baffles me as is so eloquent

has always been very clingy baby and never ever plays alone

so i may have to admit perhaps just a charcter thing?
i am an only child andso is hubby and both of us were very independent toddlers so bizzarre how our lo needs a lot of playing companionshiop and when things go wrong screams like mad

both me and hubby are veyr calm people and were clam toddlers