How do you handle a wild child?

From Russel Peters: "Learn how to beat your kids!" LOL

Hmm .... have you considered purchasing a tazer?

When my daughter gets like this I stick her in her room and she is not allowed back out until she stops her screaming . It doesn't make it any easier as she rips apart her whole room before she calms down but at least she doesn't sound as loud as if she was right beside me . The ohther thing I do is put her in the time out chair , she doesn't stay there and I have to have a lot of patinece to keep putting her back but when I do this she fianlly realizes she is not getting off until she can go three full minutes without screaming and throwing a tantrum . I use three minutes because that is how old she is .

Hi beautyqueen26, I can tell you that this is a normal behaviour of a three year old. You will be worry if she is queit and not active. I think she wants her mommy's attention. So, when she think she didnt get enough, she start to make scene to attract your attention. I know it is irritating sometimes. My son is 3 years old and he is also throwing tantrums sometimes. What I do is first I will make sure that there is nothing wrong with him like whether he uncomfortable or hungry or he wants something. If there is nothing wrong, I will just let him cry as much as he likes and it works. He will come to me and stop crying. You can try this if you feel comfortable with it.

My son is almost three years old and I think I can understand your feelings. I think when your child behaves badly, sometimes she just wants to catch your attention. Children don't like being ignored. When she is not reasonable, please try to talk to her and don't critize her at that time. As it'll probably make things go worse. Tell her mom wants to have a good daughter. It's not right to cry. When my son behaves badly, I will try to make him calm at first. I tell him that I love him when he is a good boy. I hope it can help you. The love is the best method.

i can tell you are no the only mom to go through this. In fact a few weeks ago when i became a memeber i sought help as well with my 3 year old. lol I tried out some of the things that the great mylotters suggested and came up with standing her in a corner, she hates it and tries her hardest not to get put there. She still has outbursts and tantrums but they are getting less and less. this may not work for your child everyone of them are different. I wish sometimes that they came with a manual and a warrenty lol but i think the best thing to do is be patient and dont give into her, it does get better, baby steps at a time.lol One suggestion was to put her somewhere safe and leave the room for a while, this has also helped me regain my cool and to be better able to deal with her tantrums and by leaving she realized that she wasnt getting the attention that she had exspected, so it is good for 2 reasons. I hope you can find something to help you out. Good Luck

I have this experience too with my adopted daughter. She is now 13 years old. I can't handle her anymore so I send her to a catholic convent some 60km from my house and she has stayed there for 3 years now. Actually that convent is for orphanage but I beg the nuns to take her in to get spiritual guidance. Her behaviour changed dramatically. I am happy for her.

It's perfectly normal behavior. Try to monitor the times of day that this happens though. Her behavior could correlate with how tired she is. My kids usually did this late in the afternoon and I would call this the witching hour. After they gave up their naps, they still had moments where they needed to wind down just the same. It was at that time that I would sit them down in front of a low-key video with a light snack or some milk. She also may be just testing you since she is in what I call the "push me, pull me" stage.

We have a couple of children that go through this kind of behavior. It was explained to us that the children haven't learned how to control their anger yet. when one of the children go into a tantrum like this I set them on a stool in the laundry room. They know that this is their cool down stool and as soon as they have cooled down they can come out so we are able to discuss what has happened. We didn't want to use their bedroom for their bad behavior because we didn't want them to associate their bedroom with being bad. Another thing that we did was try to figure out what the triggers were to set the tantrum off for each child and we would later try to avoid them as much as possible.

Have you ever heard of 1,2,3 magic. It is a video to watch. If your child misbehaves, you tell them thats one. If they keep it up, you say thats two. and if they continue, you say thats three, and then they sit in a corner for no more than five minutes. We used that with our daughter and it worked great! And she has A.D.H.D. Hope this helps you!

Its definately abnormal (unless you want to raise a Convict) Your child is Running you! She's having her way with you by her wild (but successful tactics) This is Easy to Overcome. Next time, when she begins to scream and kick, simply ignore her. Make yourself a cup of coffee and sit down with a book! I bet she stops 3 minutes later, or before! She's looking for your response which is to get her to stop her tantrum. Kids are Sooo Smart! But you're her Mom and she Has to obey! When you tell me to do something..make sure she does it.... if she doesn't, explain to her, Either she does it, or you won't give her something she likes very much. In other words make a bargain with her, "You do this, and I'll do that for you," etc You will be surprised how well this will work for you, and your daughter!

Most important that you keep calm and not let the baby know that you are frustrated they tend to play on your emotions. You are not the only one who goes through it. my nephew is almost the same way.