What do you do with a screamer?

[Calluna]

Oh it's awful isn't it?

We just tell DS that "It's too loud, please use your inside voice. " if he doesn't stop I tell him, "that's too noisy, I'm not listening" then don't respond until he stops. If he talks I talk back but screaming gets no response.

Generally I don't like ignoring him, but any attention paid to the screaming made it 50 times worse. Every time. It took a while but he knows now that if I say it I mean it, and he stops within a minute or two.

[Mad Scientist]

DD2 would do that. It got to the point where I had tO put her in time out because nothing else worked. It took three days and no more screaming. She has completely stopped for the past year. In the car, I ignored her if she screamed but that was really tough. Good luck x

[RhiChiChi]

I would do what H&Z did - 'please use your inside voice' then ignore the behaviour until either DD stopped screaming or at least tried talking