tsatske -> RE: Okay, so I really have no tolerence for some types of people.... (6/13/2008 4:54:57 PM)
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Asher, please understand that i really like and respect you. You are one of the people whose posts i look for because you comment intellengently on many subjects. (plus you are just funny. esp. that 'i'm going to eat you both' thing) I don't necessarilly have any problem with what you did. We live in the real world. Children should learn to deal with a variety of people. Words do not actually hurt. ect, ect. That said, you and i have very differant opinions about parenting, perhaps, and, if so, that is just okay, too. The proper way to handle a tot having a temper tantrum is to let them have it. To ignore it. To let them learn, very clearly, that it changes NOTHING. You can't make mom mad. You can't get mom frustrated. You can't make a shopping trip you are tired of end when you want it to. Now, if I had been the parent standing there patiently while my kid had a tantrum, there were a few things you MIGHT have seen, depending on if it came up; some more things you would not have seen, but they still happened, and effected the overall childtraining happening. If the child is actually in danger to themselves, other people (even a minor annoyance like kicking someone) or property, i will bodily pick them up, ignore them kicking me, and move them to where it is safe for them to throw their temper tantrum, without risk of getting hurt, hurting anyone or breaking anything. If they are taking it out on ME - well, at home, if i was sure they were in a safe place, i would walk away. In a another place, where i could not walk away, i might restrain them safely - like taking off their shoes if they are kicking me. Later, when we leave the store, it is likely that i will lie. Once we are in the car and they are calm, i will probably say something like, 'I was planning to stop at McDonalds for lunch, but now i can't, because you threw a temper tantrum. Oh, well, let's go home and get lunch, i guess.' I will hold a child when their temper tantrum is ending. A temper tantrum to a two year old feels like an anxiety attack to us. This is why it is so important to provide enough boundries so that they can gain control and not have them - because they don't like them, and they are horrible. When you give in to a temper tantrum - even by letting it be clear it effects you, getting angry, or having to change your routine - you set the stage for them to repeat over and over, and, really, how horrible is that for the child. If we are anywhere where i can identify any 'known' person that we will see again, - a grandparent or friends house, a clerk at a store we go to regularly that we are used to saying hi to - anything - the child will appologize later, on a return trip, for their behavoir, because that reinforces the self-responsibility. My children did not throw tantrums past the age of speaking. I babysit for my best friends sons, who were severly ADHD, and they did, and trust me, i know this is a hard row to hoe, for the parent, discipline wise, but i also know it works, and is worth it. I have even done it proffessonally with very challenging children. they catch on that this bhehavoir does not work - that it gets no reaction - and that you are empathetic to how horrible it is for them to lose control like that- and they outgrow the behavoir with that support.
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