Normal behaviour for 13 months?

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DD is already having full blown tantrums, screaming, kicking, thrashing about, throwing things, when she doesn't get what she wants. I haven't seen other friends babies of a similar age doing anything like this. Please tell me she will therefore become a dream at the age of 2...

Wish I could. My son started doing that sort of thing around 11 months. At nearly 23 months he still does, but not quite as often.

It's harder the younger they are because they can't communicate or understand.

Good luck!

I could have written your post OP!!! My DD is a little over 13 months and I swear is in the terrible 2's already!!! I keep telling myself it's because she can't talk yet and that it will get better when she can but maybe I am just kidding myself?? :(

I do think it will get better when they can talk, my ds1 is nearly 3 now and he used to be quite a handful from around 16, 17 months ish but by the time he was getting nearer to 2 could communicate much better so i found all this much easier to deal with, i think speech makes a huge difference if tantrums are down to frustration. because a 13 months or just a bit older than that, normally they cant express themselves too well, so frustration can turn into tantrums whereas the little bit older, atleast if they can tell you the problem you can sort it out. not that it gets rid of the problem for all children but for me i found after age 2 easier in this way really and between 1-2 yr harder for tantrums type behaviour
My ds2 also started this from around 13 months age, not that regularly but every now and again if something really upsets him he will lose his temper big time, lying on the floor scream with rage etc, i think its normal at times. when they are very little they dont always know how else to express their feelings or frustration

My DS is 13 months and exactly the same.... I think its communication frustration too... poor little things :)

It must be so frustrating for them! They have this massive developmental urge to investigate everything inappropriate but not toys and we stop them!

With ds i try and minimise it by... hiding things (stuff he likes to play with that is dangerous/fragile/not ours),

lowering my standards (eg, he gets bored in the high chair so i give him snacks as he plays though this is messy. Is it the end of the world if he picks up litter? I have wipes!)

trying to comprimise (he wants to stir a pan, i let him with help if not too hot, or get him his own pan and wooden spoon out. Does it matter if we go his longer way round?)

and lastly distraction (toys, funny noises, putting him on my shoulders/chucking him up in the air if we have to leave somewhere and i think he'll hate it)

Of course there are times when none of these work (though few). But i find that if i know i have done my best to ease his frustration i don't feel so bad about him crying (or annoyed cause it's less frequent)

I too hope it gets better when he can talk (but this is a long way off! So i'm trying to make it as easy as poss for now!)

Consider sing and sign or similar! My dd's frustration was eased enormously when she could sign the problem before she had the speech she needed.