Screaming phase (at least I hope it's just a phase)
By cynddvs
@cynddvs (2948)
United States
March 21, 2007 9:02pm CST
I need some advice here. My daughter is 17 months old and has recently started going through this screaming phase. She starts screaming whenever I have to take something away from her or whenever she doesn't get her way. I don't mean like crying scream I mean like bloody murder screams. Have any of your kids done this? If so, how do you handle it? What I've been doing so far is either send her to her room until she calms down or just pick my battles. I just don't want her to think she can have her way when she screams. But I also don't want to have to resort to spanking because I'm afraid she'll start hitting back and it will only make it worse. Is this a phase all kids go through? I just don't know how to handle this.
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@beautifulceiling (1300)
• United States
22 Mar 07
Screaming is a lot of work! I think you're handling it right. She'll quit when she gets tired. The one thing I would be careful NOT to do is to let her have her way just to get her to stop screaming, because that would reinforce the behavior. But it sounds like you're not doing that so it's probably just a matter of waiting out this phase until she figures out screaming doesn't work. Not easy, I know, but it will eventually pay off.
@btownlady (31)
• United States
22 Mar 07
hey sound like she a little spoiled that hard to break once they know it works good luck and get ready it only get worst
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
27 Mar 07
Another good thing to do, is to ignore it. When it gets no results and doesn't accomplish what she wants (which is revenge! and also a trying to get her way:) she will soon forget about doing it, especially if you reinforce her good behavior when she doesn't do it..
:))
