What do you do when your 2 year old has a tantrum

[sloane]

I think it depends on the child and what the tantrum is over. Sometimes I just sit next to DS without talking (because talking often makes him worse). Sometimes (at home) I will walk away - for eg he hasn't napped yesterday and was tired and emotional by dinnertime. He was half hanging off his chair and wanted his knife...then didn't want his knife etc. when we'd finished we calmly told him we were leaving the table and went to sit down. After a while he came for cuddles. Sometimes I just suit him on my knee and cuddle him.

I always give him a cuddle afterwards though and tell him that I love him. You can see with a lot of his meltdowns that he doesn't want to be that upset but the build up of emotion is too much to control.

I did also read one technique where you repeat what they want/are saying if you can catch it in,the early stages. The theory being that they then slow down or stop because they see that you're actually hearing what they're saying. Then once they're calm you explain (in very simple words) why not or why you can't etc. it has worked with ds a few times.

to you. They can be very draining and so hard to stay calm yourself.

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