Dealing With Temper Tantrums
Most people with young children, will, at one point or another, have to deal with temper tantrums from their toddler. When the child does it for the first time or they are very young when they start having them, parents can find it amusing as they child will completely over react to some small incidence, such as not being able to do something for themselves, or the parent saying no!
But the amusement from the first couple of incidences will soon turn to the parent being perplexed by the tantrums. Mainly from not being able to know what to do to prevent the child from having a tantrum or not knowing what to do to once in the throes of one.
Either way for the parent, the child having a tantrum can be the source of much embarrassment, and knowing how to deal with it in front of other people, possibly in a strange house also adds more stress to the situation.
One of the first things to remind yourself is to not over react to the situation which will just make it worse. If you find yourself getting cross and then starting to shout then take yourself off to another room and calm down before going back and trying to sort the situation.
Sometimes children think that their parents horrified reaction is funny and will keep throwing tantrums, just to see you explode. If this is the case you need to alter your attitude towards your child’s behaviour.
before the tantrum gets to the full on screaming stage try and distract your child by asking them a question or seeing if they want to look at a book or help you with something. Ignoring it in this way will take their attention off of whatever made them cross.
It is always worth remembering that you should not go back on your original decision. This will confuse the child. For example if you have said no to something and they have a tantrum about this, avoid back tracking and saying yes they can have whatever it was. They will think that tantrum throwing is the only way to get what they want.
If diffusing the situation does not work, try putting them on the naughty step. This is where you put the child in a safe, but boring place, and they have to sit there for a certain length of time. Most people do it for a minute of every year in age their child is.
If you wish you can make older children sit there for a slightly longer time, perhaps till they have calmed down and worked out what they did wrong. This will not work for toddlers as their memory is not as developed.
Whichever method of stopping the tantrums you use, you must always explain to the child, no matter what their age, why they cannot throw a tantrum and the reasons you have told them off or made them take time out. Once your child learns that their tantrum will not get them anywhere they will soon stop them.
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