Anyone else's 16mo throwing loud tantrums already??

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I thought this was meant to happen nearer 2 years! Anyone there to comfort me??

DS threw some excellent kicking, screaming, floppy/rigid, bright red, real tears tantrums from about 11-18 months. I did the walk of shame in a supermarket with a thrashing toddler under my arm kicking and screaming for all he was worth because I wouldn't let him take the dog food down from the shelves He's 20mo now and hasn't had one in a while. Touch wood. Now he's very verbal he doesn't get so frustrated.

My tactics were to try to work out what he wanted in the first place and if it wasn't dangerous or going to hurt anyone/thing then I'd let him do/get it. If he absolutely shouldn't do it then I'd try to distract him. If that didn't work I'd pick him up and physically move him, giving him lots of cuddles while he calmed himself down.

HTH.

really normal. we used to call it 'practicing for being 2'. whoever stuck the arbitrary '2' onto the tantrum stage originally, had a late developer.

Oh yes! DS1 has spectacular ones.

Thanks everyone, glad to hear i'm no the only one! Well done AKMD! My girl threw one of her first major tantrums on holiday when we had to take her out the pool, (woe betide us) and so we became the spectacle of the hour for the fellow pool users! I definitely think half her frustration is from not being able to communicate, and most of my frustration is from her not being able to understand me! Oh how we take talking and understanding one another for granted... come on words!

Thankfully she is also loud when she's happy too though, and does love to giggle and squeal :)

Yup, 15mo and frustrated that he can't get dummymummy to either understand what he wants, or if she does, give it to him. Distraction is my tactic where possible, where not, just suck it up and wait for it to pass.

Yup- DS (13mo) can't even walk yet but he's managing to tantrum- as in going rigid, screaming, throwing and upending things for something as minor as not being able to get the shape in the shape sorter or me not being able to translate what sounds like "daddy, yaya, yaya, duck" into "Please may I have another slice of toast". I'm hoping it's just frustration at not being able to walk yet. Otherwise it's going to be a long 2 years in the Frankenstein household.

Thank heavens for this thread, I was about to compose a massive epistle on DS' behaviour recently in terms of tantrums. He's 16.5mo and has been doing this for a few weeks - particularly when I take something off him, or say no to him/stop him from doing something dangerous. Other kids taking things off him doesn't seem to be a problem yet. Though I'm sure it will be...

I don't think ignoring is proving effective yet as he just screams all the louder if I walk away and with v thin walls and neighbours we don't really get on with, I don't want to give cause for another complaint from them about noise. So I've been distracting where possible, removing from the source of annoyance. He's been extra clingy also, runs after me shrieking Mummy Mummy and gets wildly aggravated if he can't come in the bathroom with me / if I'm cooking dinner and not able to get down on his level to play or best of all pick him up, which is what he wants most of all.

DS just 15 months, we are teething tonight too. Arrrrgggh. Eating chocolate my chocolate medicine now and breath...

My DS's started at about 9 months....