Today my toddler decided she wanted a popsicle at 9am. I’m not a stickler for that and typically if we have them and you ask I will allow it. However we are out of them and normally she understands that but today she had the loudest most awful screaming meltdown yet.
She was hitting her body to the ground and then would climb and crawl all over me and couldn’t be consoled. All I could do to calm her was say bye bye and walked into another room and pretended to read a book.
Idk if that is a healthy way to calm her but I didn’t know what else to do.
Any advice that isn’t “ scream back “ bc I won’t be doing that.
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Ear plugs (highly recommend Loop) and sit quietly near her. Regulate yourself and allow her to co-regulate. The ear plugs help manage the overstimulation the screaming causes and makes it easier to regulate your own nervous system.

Also have a speech delay kiddo ... when he throws tantrums , I just stare at him and tell him "mommy doesn't understand you when you scream like that so I will wait until you finish" ...... lasts at most 1m30s ..... after a while , he realizes that "life isn't going to end just because he can't get / have xyz" and he'll come back calmer .. sometimes we have to go through that 2-3 times before he calms down enough and understand "mommy means business" ... I know he understands when he gives me a hug . Then we talk about it and I always tell him "screaming doesn't get you your way"
Will also "walk" him to his room so he can learn that it's okay to feel how you feel , but let it out in your room and come back out with a new attitude .
I will say , these "terrible 2's" have been very trying lmao