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The tantrums have started

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chezziejo · 23/01/2012 16:06

how does this small little thing make me feel so bloody awful. He's 19 months old and currenly on the naughty step for throwing his cup on the floor (again). I've told him he can get off but he's choosing to sit there and scream :-(. He had one this morning as he didn't want a wash and one at toddlers when another child wanted to play with same toy. He actually threw a ride on cart thing. I let his scream a while on floor then, then he let me pick him up and had a cuddle and all was well again. He's getting bad for throwing things. Someone please tell me all this is normal and it passes. How do you cope with them? I'm ignoring at the moment knowing he's safe but it's so damn hard and I'm tearing up inside and feel close to tears. I havnt raised my voice to him, just firm. He's been doing it a month now and they are getting more frequent. I would try and avert them
But sometimes I have no idea what's wrong :-(

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theparentconsultancy · 23/01/2012 20:26

Poor you so hard to strike a happy balance of ignoring and disciplining at this age. Pick your battles, I would suggest that for throwing his cup or similar you just taking it away from him. If he protests then tell him 'no throwing' Give him 1 more chance and if he throws again take it away and don't give it back. Do this every time, he will soon understand and lose interest. For sharing toys, explain that he can have the toy when x has finished try to divert attention with another toy before he can tantrum. Offer him the toy when the child has finshed so he learns that he will get it eventually. Of course this is normal behaviour for this age. Try to give him choices let him chose the face cloth or put on the toothpaste. So he is kept busy and less time for tantruming!Be consistant with him and they should lessen. :)

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