A screaming 17month old!!!

[Ashtons mummy]

hi ladies i have a 17month old son who at the min does nothing but scream im at my wits end with it!!!

he screams if he cant get his own way , he gets frustrated when hes trying to say somthing and you dont know what he wants he screams ... he screams to get your attention, he screams to let you know hes there....like hes telling you off

when hes screaming there is no tears so i know hes not upset ... iv tired everything i can think of iv ignored it, iv told him no and put him on the step... nothing is working

by the time his dad gets home im in a mood due to our sons constant screaming and its starting to take its toll

im just look for som advice if your toddle has done this how did you get through it or how are you currently coping with it

thanks
beth x x x

 

[leeanne]

Honey, most toddlers go through this phase and mostly it's because they cannot talk and they get frustrated. So the easiest thing they can do is scream.

All mine have gone through this stage. Chase has recently started to come out of it, thank goodness

The one thing I did do if the screaming was too much was put him in timeout in his playpen. After a certain number of times, even walking towards that playpen saying you're going for timeout made him stop screaming.

 

[katieandbump]

Lilly has spells of being like this due to frustration at not being able to comunicate perhaps if you could remove him from your surrounding he won't have someone to do it to so won't do it? We don't have a playpen so when lilly is naughty and strops i put her in a cot and she'll either grizzle for ages and ill go get her and tell her what she did wrong, or she just falls asleep or plays and clams down because there's no one to perform to. The last time she was naughty i put her in her cot and as i walked out i heard her say "oh hi bear" as if she was saying have you been naughty too to her teddy in the cot cheeky monkey lol

 

[Zipp]

Oh my goodness my little nephew does this as well, it is so impressive he sounds like a wee dynosaur! Sorry not very helpful I know. When he's at ours I tend to try to figure out what's frusrating him or if he's just being stubborn about something I explain why he can't do / have it and then ignore him.

He had a brilliant hissy in the park the other day because I souldn't let him climb up the slide when other kids were on it.

 

[Laura2919]

Chloe and Jaycee are there now! Screaming at everything. Jaycee is terrible she screams really loudly and then its as if she is laughing and screaming its awful! Lol.
I was told its a phase and they soon grow out of it..
I wish someone had warned me about all these 'phases' biting, hitting, screaming the list is endless

 

[HannahsMummy]

Hannah went through this a few months ago. Its because he is trying to communicate what he wants and because you don't understand he's getting frustrated. Does he understand yes and no? When Hannah was trying to ask for something, I found it helped if instead of her trying to ask me, I got down to her level and got her attention and then asked her 'do you want a drink' or 'are you tired' or 'do you want your crayons'. Then she would either say yes or no, and we would solve the problem. As soon as I started doing this with her the screaming stopped

 

[Ashtons mummy]

thankyou ladies i hope he grows out of it soon fingerscrossed x x x

 

[Dee_H]

I would be a bit leary about using your child's bed for time away..it may work but the child may start to associate going to bed as you have been naughty. You may then find yourself with a whole new issue of your child giving you a hard time at bedtime because they think they have done something "bad"...I hate using that word but you know what I mean! Having a timeaway step or chair or mat may work better. You want your child to know bed is a safe, comfy place...not somewhere you go when you are naughty.