Hi Guys

Just wondering if you have any ideas how I can deal with my 2 and a half year olds temper tantrums that occur when I arrive to pick him up from his grandparents house (or whoever may be looking after him). Basically I arrive and he loses it!! "Go Away Mummy! Go Home! Go back to work!". This can go on for half an hour or longer!! I try to talk to him about it but in the end I have to walk away from him and let him work it out for himself. He stays by me the whole time and wants to be with me (asks me for cuddles and then when I go to give him one he says no) but won't allow me to do anything for him.

This has been going on for a while and is really becoming hard to deal with - not very nice for the ego but also the tantrum is just awful!

Do you have any tactics or methods I could try? I've tried distracting him but he just flips out so quickly that I think I need to arrive with something special for him - obviously I don't want to give him a present every time he is away from me but something to take his mind off the tantrum he wants to throw!!

What do you think? Hope you can help me!!!