AD Kids - Tackling Tantrums
David Laurino
Tackling TantrumsIf you've pulled out everything in your arsenal to no avail and your little one is still headed into a full-blown tantrum, don't worry. The first thing to remember is to stay calm. "If you get more and more riled up, they'll get more and more riled up," says Douglas.
The best solution for handling a tantrum is to pick your child up and take them out of the situation. "My choice would always be to remove the child from everyone and talk privately about what's happening," says Polland. She suggests taking them some place where you'll know they'll be safe and letting them thrash it out.
For example, you might put them in the car, in their car seat, and shut the door. She suggests telling the child to knock on the window when they're done, while you stand outside unbothered and acting as though you can't hear anything. According to Polland, children know they're more likely to get what they want because you don't want to be embarrassed.
One Christmas when Billingham's son was a toddler, he threw an all-out tantrum at a crowded store. Instead of getting upset, Billingham ignored him. When his son took a break, he began applauding him and told him he needed to kick the left leg harder to keep up with the right. "If you don't get embarrassed by the child's behavior, it loses all of its power," he says. His son ended up giggling, and they left the store.
The experts also caution against using physical punishment as a discipline tool because, says Polland, you're telling your child it's OK to hit. "Are we treating children the way we hope they'll treat us and each other?" she asks. Douglas says that while it's never a great discipline method, when doing it in public, you're just asking for someone to call the police.
Susan Henrichs
Almost from the time my daughter, Elizabeth, could speak in sentences, she whined when she didn't get what she wanted: my attention, a snack, a repair job on a faulty toy. When she turned three—and suddenly seemed like such a "big girl"—her continued whining started to drive me crazy. I'd mutter angrily under my breath, clench my teeth, even whine back. Once I lost control and screamed "Shut up!" so vehemently that she burst into tears. But more often than not, I'd let her have her way just to make the shrill sound stop.Like nails on a chalkboard, whining—an irritating blend of talking and crying—has the ability to make almost any parent get angry or give in. And preschoolers are pretty smart: They know that pleading in that pitch has a strong effect on their parents.
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AD Kids Susan Henrichs: "When my daughter was about 2 years old, we took her to a daycare for a couple days, and she started stuttering at exactly that point," says JoBeth Cox from Indiana, mother of Peytan, now 4. "My mom swears it's because we tried to make her go to daycare, but even when we took her out and put her back with my mom, she continued to stutter."
It was really obvious during about a two-month period, and everyone would notice, she says. "Some family expressed concern about whether or not she was upset about something or stressed, and it was causing her to do it. But after the doctor said it was normal, everyone just tried not to make a big deal when she did it," says Cox.
Cox went to her pediatrician with concerns but was told most children go through some stage when they are learning to talk when they have difficulties. As predicted, Peytan stopped stuttering by age 3.
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Age 11
-uses about 50 words
-uses connected sounds that sound like sentences in a foreign language
-begins to understand categories like food, toys, animals and clothing
Age 2
-200 to 250 words
-uses two-word sentences
-follows two-step commands
-uses negatives such as 'not' and 'no' in combination with another word
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AD Kids: 'I...milk!' my eldest son would say at about three years old, meaning of course, 'I want milk.' It's hard to believe now that my articulate 10-year-old son was once diagnosed with a speech delay. At the time, however, I found it pretty traumatic when I saw his ability to vocalize lagging far behind his friends. At age two, his peers were forming two-word sentences while I was desperately writing a list of four or five words my son seemed to understand and pronounce.
My experience is not uncommon: In Ontario alone, 10 percent of children have some sort of speech or language delay. These range from sound substitution (making a t sound instead of a k, for instance) to being unable to use or understand language. How a given delay is treated depends both on the specific problem and its underlying cause.
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Mild or More Severe Stuttering
But not all children will stop on their own. A child with milder stuttering repeats sounds more than twice (li-li-li-li-like this), while tension and struggle may be evident in the facial muscles, especially around the mouth, according to Dr. Guitar and Dr. Conture.
Other signs to look for, say Dr. Guitar and Dr. Conture, are the pitch of the voice. It may rise with each repetition, and sometimes the child will experience a "block" – no airflow or voice for several seconds. If the stuttering is present more often than absent, your child may have mild or more severe stuttering – more severe if the stuttering makes up more than 10 percent of his speech, according to The Stuttering Foundation.
If the child stutters "with considerable effort and tension, avoids stuttering by changing words and using extra sounds to get started, he will profit from having therapy with a specialist in stuttering," say Dr. Guitar and Dr. Conture.
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Don't Talk for MeAnother factor that may limit a toddler's language development could be an older sibling's communication interpretation. Older siblings often "talk for" their little brother or sister: "Mom, she needs a diaper change," or "The baby wants a drink." Although this is helpful in a busy household, it may actually deter a toddler from needing to talk. The toddler may learn that they don't need to talk because someone else will help them get their needs known.
What to do:
Ask your older children to help your toddler talk. In general, older children want to be helpful and will assist you with encouraging your toddler to talk. If you're a good language model, your older children will mirror how you talk to your toddler.
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A hectic family life can actually limit the amount of talking time. A toddler may watch television while Mom is cooking or when his parents are getting ready for work. Dad quietly plans his day as he is driving his toddler to daycare. Once in daycare, the television is on while the daycare provider is cleaning up after breakfast. After morning television, quiet play is encouraged to reduce the noise while the other babies sleep.
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25 to 30 monthsNow that he has a bigger vocabulary, your toddler will begin to experiment with modulation. He may yell when he means to speak normally, and whisper softly when answering a question, but he'll find the appropriate volume soon enough. He's also starting to get the hang of pronouns, such as I, me, and you. Between ages 2 and 3, his working vocabulary will increase to up to 300 words (though he'll understand up to 900 words). He'll string nouns and verbs together to form complete but simple sentences, such as "I go now." He'll even get the hang of speaking about events that happened in the past, though he may not understand the concept of irregular verb forms and come out with expressions such as "I runned" or "I swimmed." While it may sound funny, it's actually a great thing because it shows that he's picking up the basic rules of grammar -- that you add an "-ed" onto a word if it happened yesterday, for one. Similarly, mice will be "mouses" and so on.
At this age, your child should also start to be able to answer simple questions, such as "who" and "where" questions. If your child echoes your question rather than answering it, this is cause for concern and worth mentioning to your pediatrician.
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