Does your toddler have tantrums already?

Strategies to cope please 🥲😆 I have no clue what I’m doing haha. I normally just try and talk to him calmly, offer hugs or distraction but sometimes they go on 5 or 10 minutes. Can any second time mums shed light on whether this is normal for this age?

My 18 month old throws some massive tantrums, I’ve found if I whisper to him he will sometimes stop his tantrum to listen and I also try to distract him from what originally caused the tantrum.

We done the big little feelings course, it's got mixed reviews but some of helpful as is their Instagram. But some of the tips have been amazing. Learn about gentle parenting, how wording matters, age appropriate behaviours, and child led approaches etc. I find a specific song (calm myself down by Taylor love) helpful when it's getting overwhelming and my children now know what that song means, and the boundary song is also a helpful one too

Ours’ tantrums aren’t that bad yet but we’re starting to see glimpses 😅 they tend to happen when we do something she doesn’t want to do. We try to explain the sequence of what’s happening as often as possible and sometimes this helps to reduce the length of the tantrum. For example, she hates being changed so I’ll say “first we need to change, then we can read stories, okay?” If she’s still fighting me during the change I’ll acknowledge that she’s mad but that we need to do this first and then we’ll do what she wants. Sometimes it helps, sometimes she still throws a fit and changing is a two-person job 😂 but just because something doesn’t work in the moment doesn’t mean your toddler isn’t absorbing it and learning from it. Repetition really helps and you’ll see the benefits someday for sure!