Handling tantrums

How do you handle an awful tantrum?

DD will be 2 in December. For some odd reason today she threw such a tantrum when I tried putting her to sleep. Beyond the normal tantrum she cried so hard she was choking and throwing up (all over her sheets etc) I let her lay down in my bed and she is sleeping and is fine now but I don't want to reward bad behavior by giving her the results she wants. Normally she goes right to sleep and is a pleasure but this was awful. I felt bad for her

Re: Handling tantrums

It may be that's she's just off (teething, getting sick...). I always worry that one time of "giving in" will start a bad routine, but dd tends to just be back to normal the next day.

I had the same thing a few weeks ago. Dd is usually great about going to bed, but she refused, and cried til she threw up in her crib. I ended up taking her out, settling her down, and then having her redo her entire night routine (minus the vitamins!) - changed pjs, brushed teeth, let her watch a few minutes of tv, read to her, let her lay down on the couch, then put her back into bed. It luckily worked!

Handling tantrums

Id do whay Christina does. Calm them down..relax them & yourself and try again. Like adults kids have bad days/nights