Toddlers and Their Tantrums – Tips to Handle It
Posted in Parenting, Toddlers & Preschoolers on 11. Oct, 2009
Some days it seems like having a two year old is just one battle after another. If I start to put one shirt on her, she’ll want to wear a different one. When I put her in the grocery cart, she kicks her legs and yells “walk!” If her sister suggest they watch the Barbie movie, my two year old suddenly has her heart set on “Finding Nemo.”
I found this post from Parenting.com very interesting. Every parent goes through these little battles with their toddlers, and reading about different ways to handle them (without giving in, or losing your temper) was very helpful for me. I can really identify with the suggestion below, since for a while I was having a really hard time getting my kids to settle down and buckle up in their car seats. My girls would always jump in our minivan and immediately sit in the back seat, giggling and refusing to sit in their car seats. I was getting pretty tired of this, so I tried the “let’s race” approach suggested below.
“Tactics to try: Keep it light. ‘I make games out of things that they must do,’ says Harrisburg, NC, mom Shannon Mathews of her four kids, including 2-year-old twins. ‘We make it a race to see who can get buckled into their car seat first.’ Distracting play, like silly songs or goofy faces, works, too. ‘If I have just the babies, I make them laugh as I’m strapping them in so they forget what I’m doing, and then I quickly give them each a toy off the floor of the van — there’s always a toy on the floor of our van!’”
For more advice on ways to handle tough toddler issues, check out 5 Tantrum Stoppers That Work. [Parenting]
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