How do I stop my 2 year old son from screaming!!!?
i agree with Betsy the screaming is probably due to frustration at not being able to communicate verbally – it’s also a learned behaviour (ie he’s learned that it does get him what he wants) so it can be unlearned as for the time-out issue i’ve had this problem in the past – our solution was a to strap the child into the buggy to be timed out – she certainly didn’t like it and soon it was having the desired effect
This is my 2nd one and he does the same thing, he’s pushing his limits to see how far he can get and trying your patience to see how much it will take for you to give in. I ignore my son at home and when we’re in public I take him back to the car and tell him how that will not be allowed sometimes that works and when that doesn’t he tired and we go home or I take him a park so he can get his angry monsters out. I hear those screams in my sleep sometimes….lol he’ll grow out of it but until then it does seem like forever.
To stop your son from screaming, you have to eliminate it’s power…which means not giving in no matter what. Eventually, he’ll stop because it’s costing him a lot of energy and not getting him any results. When my daughter first turned two, I didn’t even try to get her to sit in time out. Instead, I’d put her in her room with a child gate up, set the timer for two minutes and walk away. My thinking was that by using the timer, she didn’t think I was giving in to her screaming…and it seemed to work. She usually cried the whole two minutes and then stopped as soon as the timer went off. Now that she’s almost three, when she starts to have a tantrum I just tell her, “go in your room if you’re going to cry” and she immediately stops. Stopping the screaming in public is the worst but again, you’ve got to bite the bullet and just ignore him (don’t yell at him, don’t plead with him, just ignore him). I don’t personally advocate leaving the store during a tantrum because that’s basically gi
