Tantrums

[HeidiKat]

So much for the terrible twos, my DD who has only just turned one just had an almighty screaming fit over not being allowed a drink of fizzy juice out of her dad's glass. Did anyone else's DC do this at a similar age and does anyone have any advice on how to handle it apart from let her scream it out like we have done so far?

Why couldn't she have the fizzy juice? Was it really vodka and tonic?

Am in the same boat with DS (14 mths). Ridiculous level of tantrum when removed from anything remotely life threatening... My hope is that he'll get them all out of his system sometime in the next 10 months!

Mine started throwing wobblies from about 9 months but if I explained the situation to her and offered an alternative, she would usually do what I wanted, I was amazed at how much she understood even at that age. Like "you can't go on the slide now because it's raining, but we'll come back later on" or whatever.

Of course she still gets uptight when I won't let her put her finger in the electric socket, but as an alternative I let her play with my hairdryer and a bowl of water

Nope not vodka but at this rate I will be needing it .

It's not so much the juice itself that was the issue, she can't really be trusted to drink out of a proper glass as she bites down on it, she was offered her sippy cup full of apple juice but was having none of it. She has been allowed small sips of fizzy before but I'm thinking me and DH may have to stop drinking it in front of her if this is the end result, I also didn't want to give in once she was screaming for it as that would teach her that tantrumming gets results.

No, agree not to give in when got to screaming stage but if has had small sips of fizzy before then a bit tricky to say "no you can't have it (this time)". Biting down on glass dodgy though. When we have any drink that looks "exciting" I used to put a tiny bit of similar looking drink in small, thick walled glass for dd, that usually worked.

Fizzy drink from Daddy's glass vs apple juice from sippy cup, no contest

My DD (17 months) has been having tantrums since about then. It's a question of picking your battles and being consistent. For example I won't let her turn the plugs on and off but if she wants to walk around with knickers on her head then I leave her be :)

She flings herself to the floor in the most impressive dramatic way now whenever denied anything so she keeps us amused if nothing else.

p.s. don't forget cuddles for when she has calmed down.

Thanks for all the advice, I will definitely try to be more consistent in future and pick what is worth enforcing and what to let go. DD has woken up with a cold this morning so maybe that contributed to her being grumpy yesterday.