Can I ask you all to post all you tips for dealing with toddlers hitting and tantrums

[SilveryMoon]

If you have a few minutes, can you please post your tips on how I can deal with my 2.7 year old when he hits/pushes other children and throws tantrums in public.

Atm, I try not to shout at him but I am near to my wits end over it. I know it is normal behaviour for his age, but I'd like to see how all of you deal/dealt with it.
What is reasonable? What worked for you?

Self feeding wind - Help!

My DD is just a year old and will only eat well if allowed to have her own bowl and spoon and feed herself finger foods. So far so good except that when she does a lot of the feeding herself she gets terrible wind during the night. I don't want to take a backward step with her feeding but the broken nights and seeing her in pain are doing me in! Any ideas?

Oops - meant to start a new discussion - a bit out of practice - sorry! (blush)

With a 3 year who does exactly the same thing I have every sympathy with you SilveryMoon, I am the strictest parent I know and he still does it. Not to others but me and and my husband along with shouting no or go way. He has slow speech developemnt due to having had a tracheostomy when he was a baby and I think it makes him frustrated. That doesn't help when he hurts you.

We have tried time outs, naughty step, ignoring, shouting and the list goes on. I know this doesn't help you solve it but maybe helps you feel better with another mum going through the same exhausting thing. He is the sweetest child I know until he does this.

I too am fed up with patronising 'lucky' parents who say off hand things as to how you 'should' do it. We have tried all the shoulds and even the shouldn'ts to no avail. I am with DC in hoping that when his speech catches up he will grow out of it. It is just v hard out in public feeling the 'pressure' of condemnation. I am hope you do find amswers for your sake and mine :D.

Goodness me I've just looked at that Harry Enfield sketch on you tube and that is more or less what my ds is doing to my dd without the masking tape?!!

I think I need to spend more time with him

Dave - you not got much on at the moment??