how do you deal with a drama queen?

Make sure after she throws ger tantrom that she does not get her way or you will not be able to control her afterwards. This is just her way of trying to get what she wants. Start punishing her for her tantroms. Like taking away things she likes for a week. If you don't put your foot down now you'll be on one of those tv shows talking about how you can't control her.

dang i have a 3 year old and she blows everything up now i can only imagaine when she's 13 :(

My twelve year old is the same way. Every little thing is HUGE to her. She use to have a problem with stomping off as well, although it's cut back quite a lot. When she stomps off, I make her come back then walk properly back to where she was originally stomping off to. LOL, she hates when I do this to her, but it has worked to decrease the amount of times she does this. It is a normal part of growing up, but I for one will be glad when she's grown out of this phase of her life.

I would completely ignore her when she acts like this. She has to learn that negative behvior doesn't get positive results. I would also make sure she didn't get what she wanted whenever she did this either.

I'd say just stay completely calm. A drama queen feeds on attention, and if you're completely calm, she has nothing to work herself up with, nothing to fuel her tirade.

My daughter is 2 1/2 and I think she sometimes is a drama queen. I think sometimes it's the normal terrible twos stuff but then sometimes I just don't know. I try not to over respond to things. It's hard to know how real the issue is. Could it also be partly their personality? Is it just that she's being taught this behavior by me unintentionally. I really feel that I'm a strong enough person to not give in. So sometimes I feel like what do I do now.

She hasn't been disciplined enough in emotional situations. I am sure you have disciplined her in every single aspect of her life, but I was a drama queen and my parents are not emotional people. I didn't learn how to control feelings like love and hate. When children are born for the first 6 years of their life they actually think the world revolves around them. When something amazing or bad happens they think it happens specifically to and because of them. It's really interesting to read about. Sometimes, depending on the parenting and social aspects this carries into teenage years. She still believes the world revolves around her and when things she can't manage occurs she doesn't understand how to respond... so she throws fits. You better but a grasp on this before she hits 16. When she gets older she will take it into adulthood and many drama queens end up lying to people for the majority of their lives. There are really good books, I do recommend getting one.