Does anybody else's toddler scream morning, noon or night

**Chocolate Lips** · 01-06-2007, 07:32pm

I don't think I can take much more of Isabel's tantrums. They are wearing out my patience and I have to put her into time out in her cot for her own safety as I could gladly wring her neck

She has got progressivly worse this week, am presuming this is all a reaction to James arrival but anytime she can't have her own way she screams, tantrums, hits, scratches, slaps, headbuts, whinges, cries, kicks, stamps her feet....you get the picture

I have seriously just listened to her scream her head off for over an hour because we went out for a walk and I made the foolish mistake of letting her run around the grass in the park and then she had to go back into the buggy. It is so bad that now I refuse to let her out of the pushchair and we no longer go to the swings.

The tantrums we have had today have been because grandma went home, I wouldn't let her have the remote control, she wanted to climb up the kitchen cupboard but couldn't, I was feeding James, she wanted to follow Daddy to the toilet, I took her away from playing with the door, I needed to take my keys off her, I wouldn't let her have a magazine on the cupboard..................it's endless.

At what point will she learn that these tantrums do not get her what she wants?

She is driving me mental and I just don't want to be anywhere near her.

**lazymummy** · 01-06-2007, 07:36pm

Does anybody else's toddler scream morning, noon or night ?

Yes

And mine is almost 3!

ETA: I just posted this!

http://www.damsels.org/forum/showthr...d=1#post867229

**nickimacrae** · 01-06-2007, 07:41pm

CL - firstly biiiiiiiiig

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I could have written your post a few weeks after I had DD1. DS and I literally became worst enemies. Tantrums over everything, our up till then fairly chilled house became an almost 24h war zone. I'm ashamed to say I actually began to resent DS and wonder why in the hell I had had kids.

I can't type tooo much now but just wanted to say its a bl**dy awful place to be but it *does* end. Fast foward a couple of months and DS and I were as close as ever, he was doting on his little sister and I was happy and settled enough in life to start a business!

It does get better!!! Will try post more later....

**ChelseaHarvey** · 01-06-2007, 07:43pm

Ummm yes alfie. He often has days like this and it drives me mad

For the past 2 days when i have picked him up at nursery & they tell me he has been such a good little thing, we dont get to the car and he is kicking off with me

& he stays kicking off and screaming until bed time...

The past few weekends he has screamed the whole day... It is driving me mad and he is getting worse

***Fallen Angel*** · 01-06-2007, 08:02pm

Yes, and I only have the one child to contend with. Tbh, I'm not liking her much atm at all, it's such a bloody struggle

**Chocolate Lips** · 01-06-2007, 08:04pm

Originally Posted by aimee's_angel

Yes, and I only have the one child to contend with. Tbh, I'm not liking her much atm at all, it's such a bloody struggle

I am glad I am not the only one who feels like this

but sorry you are going through it as well.

**lucypede** · 01-06-2007, 08:10pm

The first week after we brought Penny home Lucy was exactly like this, well tbh the tantrums had been building up prior to this but then they really reached a crescendo. I'm pretty sure it was her little protest about her not being centre of attention, coupled with daddy being at home. (She always turns into a whinger when he is around

) She really has calmed down though is that any consolation to you. I must admit I have tried both telling her off ignoring it and neither strategy were much help. What I do now is try to explain why she can't do x,y,z, then give her something else to think about!

I really do think this stage is hardest one developmentally - they have that desire to be independent but don't have the mental capacity to pull it off and it gets them (and us) very frustrated.

Try to keep your cool, I know its not easy though.

**Aurora** · 01-06-2007, 08:12pm

Yes - all the time. Its the turn on crying the second he doesnt get his own way which really gets me! I must admit by the end of some days I really dont like him very much. At the same time though he can be sooo loving and sweet! WHY CAN'T THEY BE LIKE THAT ALL THE TIME??????