Toddler tantrums

Just be patient . I can’t even count how many times I lost patience when mine was 2 . I tried my hardest not to yell it was hard at times I was also pregnant

I taught my son from about a year old to take a deep breath. When he does that, I acknowledge that I like to help him when he is calm

Literally walking away. If I feel like I can’t handle the tantrum calmly, I just take a second before responding. My daughter is turning 3 in two days, and she's been having a lot of meltdowns.

I showed my daughter (now 4) how to do 'finger breathing' (you run one finger up the first finger on your other hand and take a deep breath in, then as you run it down that finger, you do a big breath out, repeat for all fingers) when she was feeling calm, and told her how I like to do that when my body doesn't feel calm as it helps me to feel quiet and relaxed and settled. Then when she was having the inevitable toddler meltdowns, I would say something like 'oh lovely, I can see you are having a hard time, mummy's here. Would you like a cuddle or some space?' If she chose a cuddle, we would do that, but if she wanted space, I'd just sit near her and say 'mummy's going to do her finger breathing so that her body and mind feel more calm' and I'd model it to her and the process of me really obviously doing some deep breathing and being very overtly calm, seemed to always calm her down and she would either join in or decide she did want a cuddle. Now she's a bit older, she will do it herself at times. Xxx

My daughter turned 2 in July and we are experiencing the same issue with tantrums . If we can’t handle the issue calmly we walk away from her, decompress for a few minutes then redirect the tantrum. Our daughter isn’t very vocal so big feelings can be very hard to navigate so we try to figure out what is causing the situation explain to her why so and so happens, is done , or not done etc. if she proceeds to tantrum we then do quite time and let her ride it out for a few minutes and offer her some water to sip on