my six year old's crying is making me angry

[smedrock]

I have a really good relationship with my girls but my six year old has entered a new phase of using loud peristent howling crying and it's making me crazy. I feel like i have no patience for it. I've asked her Dad to deal with her today because i feel like it's making me too nuts to be my usual patient self. The crying has been over things like her 3 year old sister playing with a toy she suddenly wants.
I feel like the worst mum cause i just wanna say -- pull yourself together and grow up! anyone else been through this phase?

thanks x

Yes. I feel your pain. Ds gets very short shrift and sent to his room when he starts now. It's a work in progress.

My son starts fake crying and howling when his sister starts crying i ignore him seems to work

I think she is old enough to understand "I am not going to talk to you whilst you are making that horrible noise. Go to your room/the stairs/the other room and come back when you have calmed down".

my son shrieks like a banshee i would be lying if i didn't admit to shouting SHUT UP the other day honestly he did it because his younger brother had fallen over and bumped his bottom (he is in nappies so it wouldn't have hurt) his brother was fine till he did that screechy thing so then i had both in hysterics (one obviously faking it) i honestly just lost my shit with it all and told him off

he also thinks its ok to stab his brother with a fork and laugh i think im raising a psychopath some days im really hoping he grows out of it SOON

What STG said.

ah thanks goawayalready that had me in hysterics. one day we'll look back and laugh, right?

Completely agree with the "I'm not listening to that, can you leave the room if you want to make that noise..." approach

We do this with DS who's 12.. yes 12 Why he still persists to wail and cry and fall about on the floor if I ask him to unload the dishwasher is beyond me. We've just stopped dealing with it.

"if you're going to carry on like that you can take yourself into the utility room so you don't burden anyone else with your noise. Come back when your ready to speak like a young man."

Can't say it's really stemmed it, it doesn't bug me so much anymore though.

Agree with pp's. "Do that somewhere else."
I wouldn't try too hard to be patient with tantrums at 6.