Longest Tantrum Competition

[lou33]

Ds2 has been lying on the floor hitting a cardboard box, screaming his head off and refusing to be comforted for 20 minutes now, is this a record?!!

Not sure but it makes me feel a lot better!!

What major trauma set this off?

This can't count as bragging, as it was so awful at the time. Dd at the age of 2 and a half once tantrummed all the wat to sainburies, 20 minutes, all the way round Sainburies 30 minutes, and all the way home again,another 20 minutes. So over an hour in all. It was so bad that people thought she was having a fit. She would do this sort of thing 3/4 times a week for about 2 and a half years. Thank goodness she stopped, and is now a delightful 6 year old.

Don't know, but I have sometimes felt like doing that myself!!!!!

Soups, because I took him away from his dad so he could work.

Hmb you are currently holding the record!

Oooooh, you cruel and evil mummy, Lou33

Hmb, I am in awe...

Snigger. For the record he went on for another 10 minutes then finally asked for a cuddle, bless him.

Well mine just threw a tantrum over having his nappy changed again this evening. (always when it's a particularly ripe spreadable one too).

I gave him the option of it being cleaned by shower or on the change mat - he said shower. He suddenly realised I meant it half way to being carried to the bathroom and started screaming the house down.

Put him in the bath, turned the shower on, gave him a freezing cold shower (not deliberately - I forgot to set it onto the "normal" setting - how evil is that?!) and hosed him down with him screaming and sobbing "nappy change! nappy change!" the whole time. The windows were wide open - god knows what the neighbours thought.

I've probably traumatised him for life.

I need a drink.

Soupdragon, she was awesome when in full tantrum! There were times when I would put her in the pushchair and walk as fast as I could, for as far as I could. Somehow all the noise seemed less dreadful when we were out of the house

Ds has only had about 5 tantrums in total. Once he realised that it didn't get him anything he stopped. DD was more committed to throwing a wobbly. Sadly she is just like me!

hmb - you've given me the fear... DS is 21 months and I see it arriving on the horizon. OMG please let it not be that bad.

Dd started at one and carried on until she was three and a half/four. Ds has never been one for tantrums, so it may not happen to yours! It wasn't until I had ds that I realised how bad dds tantrums had been.

well here's hoping - I have to say that he has...how shall I say...always been fairly highly strung!

3 hours has been our longest with our dd, often in the middle of the night, for nothing. This started when she was just over one and has just ended, she is nearly 6 now. Beat that, often had 2 3 hour sessions in one day.

Charliecat, I tip my hat to you! That will take some beating!

I often wonder how we got this far without me ending up in the nuthouse! Thanks hmb!

Lol just read down the thread to see that you have suffered the same sort of...injustice?!? Well done you too for surviving!

my ds had one today(hes 20 months) in woolworths over a bob the builder set, in the end to calm him down I said he could have it if he could carry it to the till-which was about 200 yards away. It was quite a large box-almost as big as him- and I didnt really think he could carry it all that way, but he did. Problem was I didnt have the money to pay for it and it had to go on the credit card

DD2 screamed from 9pm till 2am one night, I was soo tired the next day. Nothing would comfort her, she screamed if I picked her up, screamed when i put her down, bang her head against the cot and threw all her toys at me!!!
Who'd be a mum

None of us if someone told us the truth

Are these tantrums continuous or do they calm down a bit during it? Maybe ds isn't so bad after all?

Dds 70 minute tantrum in Sainsburies (which is small stuff compared to the others mentioned) was non stop, full volume, thrashing round. And then it stopped. As I said, people in the shop thought she was having a fit. Good job she is so cute!!

My dds would start about nothing, ie wrong coloured socks, or something just as petty, and would just go on and on and on, because she was tantruming, screaming the house down, she wasnt eating or drinking, so by the time the 1, 2 or 3 hour tantrum was up she'dd be ratty still through hunger and thirst and often tiredness...oh it was a nightmare.
My next daughter throws 2 minute wobblys and laughs afterwards...and for valid reasons, like i turn off the tv in the middle of a cartoon...i can understand her reasons for it. Like hmb i didnt realise how extreme my dds were, i knew they were horrendous, but i just got on with it hoping the next day would be different. My mum has only ever saw her have 1 big tantrum and it reduced her to tears, just seeing how totally out of it she was on...i dont know, frustration?!
In between these screaming sessions she was, and is, lovely, intelligent, helpful bla bla bla, the change in personality was scary.
So yes they were continuous and my oh so helpful hv said when she was one that it was the terrible twos early, when she was 2 it was the tt's, when she was 3 it was the tt's dragging on a bit, when she was 4 it was the tt's really dragging on and finally when she was 5 and i gave her a mouthful about being absoultly useless and couldnt she see i had been to hell and back and thanks for being so bloody useless she apologised and said she wished she'dd helped more but she thought i was coping.
Rant over!!!!!!!!!

I feel so at home here, my ds1 is the tantrum king. I read that if they don't have an audience they should stop after 30 mins, my ds can keep it going for upto 1.5 hours. Although looking at the earlier posts I see he not so bad. It is getting better now, as he is older, and now I take toys away from him as sanctions for his bad behaviour. Boy it really hits home when he is not allowed to play with a certain toy because he had deliberately behaved badly. He knows when he gets the toy back why etc.

This seems to be working as his behaviour has dramatically improved. Either that or its just that I am calmer and am dealin gwith him better