I’m on kid #3 now, so tantrums for me, are “no big thing”. I know how they cycle and as long as they aren’t hurting themselves or someone else, I let them have their fit. I try to look at it as a teachable moment and a time of good discipline.
In the above picture you see my cutie sporting her little purple backpack. Love that kid!
Here you see my little sweet pea grabbing on to my pajama pants. She’s actually wanting me to hand her my camera. Yeah, not gonna happen.
Okay, now she’s MAD. She’s pulling the string out of my pants! I actually thought to myself, “this could totally be a blog post!”.
This is the classic tantrum position. Her feet are kicking, she’s squirming around, and yelling ” maaaaammmmmmaaaaaaa!!!!!” I’m still taking pictures at this point because I’ve been thru these tantrums enough to know that it’s almost over. I say to her, ” Come to Mommy, baby.” I pat-pat-pat gently on her back and redirect her to the purple backpack she threw off (that happened so fast I couldn’t get a picture).
She concedes, puts the bag back on, and starts to smile. ( win-win situation )
With my 2 yr. old, I am usually able to redirect her and stop the tantrum. I’m not giving in to what she wants and my blood pressure isn’t rising.
Hebrews 12:11 says, “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.
How do you handle tantrums?
She is just so darn cute!!!
I am similar to you in that I ignore it (it’s usually happening when I am trying to make dinner – JJ seems to especially want my attention when I am making dinner or doing the dishes – probably because it’s something he’s not old enough to participate in yet). But, I am still having trouble not letting myself get exasperated!
Jenn…I still have trouble not getting exasperated too! Especially if they do it in public. But I have to remind myself that Every child has tantrums. Dinner time is the hardest part of my day.
We have one that was prone to tantrums, and the other was not. It’s so funny, because I was just SURE I would never be one of those moms who would let her child act that way (especially not in Target or anywhere like that). Ha!!!
At home, the best way to deal with it was to , remove her from the setting and let her get over it. Any attempts to talk to her or reason with her had no effect when she was at that point, so it was better to just give her some space and not “feed” the tantrum.
It sounds like you do a great job of dealing with it!
I’m so glad your blog is up and running…fun!!