5 year old tantrum asap reply please!!!!

[lisaleigh1986]

My little boy is 5 i picked him up from school today with some sweets a told him to either play with his friends or sit down and eat he wanted both so threw the worst tantrum!!
I'm 37 weeks pregnant and he was punching, kicking and scratching me and also sitting on the floor screaming and because I'm heavily pregnant i can't pick him up to get him home.
Finally we got home in the end and i have sent him to his bedroom, he has been screaming for the past hour and alls i am doing is ignoring him. But now the neighbours are complaining saying they are sick of him repeating himself. which i understand will be stressful for them but can say its worse for me. am i doing the right thing by ignoring him and letting him scream???

It's very unfair on your neighbours. An hour of screaming?????

I would,.

When my 5yr old loses control there is no distraction, logic etc that works.

I have found the trigger for mine is hunger or low blood sugar... feed him when he calms (or wakes, mine often crashes) and move forward.

i know this! this is the 1st tantrum hes had since being about 3. i wasnt asking about my neighbours tho tbh im on here to try and get answers to look for help for my childs tantrum that hes having at the moment. the neighbours will have to put up with it like i am for now. im trying to put my child 1st not them

thankyou jenny

Can you not just get him out now and give him some cheese on toast or something?

i don't know if to let him finish with his tantrum first the last thing i want to do is take him out of his room and reward him right?

Run him a bath and put him in. It always worked like a charm with mine. Instant distraction... Especially if there are floaty things in. Then give him something to eat when he's calmed down.

They are quick to strip clothes once they're wet if they're not compliant at first.

thank you gamerchick i will try that now :)

Hope all is well now. I don't see it as rewarding him, but simply changing tack. He'd probably forgotten what he was even having a tantrum about!

It's hard isn't it. My dd is similar, much more tricky than when she was a toddler.