Hey LMS.

Our daughters are the same age- actually, they were born on the same day!- Anyway- I'm guessing K is still alittle bit too young to fully understand what your saying if you were to whisper in her ear or try and reason with her. These are all fabulous suggestions but I think at this age, the kids are stuck inbetween not understanding an wanting to be understood and it frustrates them IYGWIM.

With my DD, we find distraction is the best method. We usually try and predict when a screaming fit is coming and try to avoid it, but if the inevitable happens (and it always does LOL) we go to distraction. So for instance, if she is cracking it because she wants to go outside and play with the dog we usually bring her ball out and start bouncing it around in the other room. Once she hears it she forgets about the dog and comes running for the ball. We actually have a bribery box lol which has toys/activities in it that are definite tantrum stoppers. So when I am talking on the phone and she is get peed off because she wants to talk on the phone I go to the bribery box and pull out her jigsaw/blocks/book and she settles down.

I think my DD is still just alittle young to actually reason with. So distraction works well- most of the time

HTH xx