Why is my toddler hitting her head?

I have a 2 year old daughter and over the last year when she gets mad she hits her head on the floor or on a table..I am so confused and don’t know what to do. I’ve tried telling her not to do it but she still does it. She has been throwing so many temper tantrums lately. It’s WWII trying to wash her hair or for her to get dressed. And if she gets her hands on something, if you try to take it away SHE SCREAMS FOR FOREVER!

Please help i don’t know what to do

8 year old having a temper tantrum? is this usual?

my daughter and her younger sister were playing outside with their friend, well the friend gave my younger daughter a pencil sharpener (it was pink and pretty) my older daughter (she’s got extremely upset by this because she felt left out, she has tons of pencil sharpeners but she wanted this particular one she started screaming like she’d been hurt, refusing to come indoors to talk to me, a completely out of control temper tantrum followed which lasted for a good hour, she’s usually quite mature for her age and i can’t understand why she reacted like this over something so trivial? I’ve tried speaking to her to see if she has anything she’s worried about or if she has anything she’d like to talk to me about and she just said she was angry because she wanted the sharpener, does it sound like she has other issues i need to get to the bottom of or could it just be that she lost her temper and didn’t know how to control herself? how should i deal with it if it happens again? she used to do this sort of thing when he was a toddler but hasn’t for years it was totally out of the blue.

Seriously parents, why in the world would you bring a little kid to Disneyland?

So last month my family and I went to Disneyland. Most of the trip was fun except for the extreme nuisance of little children (about 5 and under). Sure, there was the few families of children who were quite, and the very rare who were actually giggling and having a good time, but the majority of children from 5 years to infancy threw the most incredible tempertantrums, screamed on top of their lungs, nonstop crying, and overall were on anything but good behavior.

I’ve only gone to Disneyland twice, once when I was 9 and my brother was 7, and last month when I was 16 and my brother was 14.

But my family and I do not understand why families couldn’t wait until:
1. Their child was past the screaming, crying, temper-tantrum stage
2. Their child was tall enough to go on most if not all the rides
3. Their child was old enough to enjoy the rides, shows, parades, and people in costume without being too scared.
And most importantly:
4. They were old enough to remember going on a trip to Disneyland.

Even when I was 9 I could only remember the most funnest rides, but I couldn’t imagine how a baby or a toddler could remember going to Disneyland. I think to make disneyland the most special vacation you’d want to go without being stressed out about taking care of your kids when they’re throwing temper tantrums or too scared on the rides or have to wait outside the lines with them because they’re not old enough or tall enough to go on the rides.

To me it was a lot funner going as a teenager because I can remember everything and I was a lot more appreciative of going to Disneyland and spending time with my family. So why would you take your little kid to Disneyland?
PetMom: I’m not saying all the children their were horrible, but everywhere we went their were kids throwing temper-tantrums and crying all day.
No, my brother and I don’t ask for much. We’re pretty well-mannered for teenagers. It was the only vacation we could go on before senior year, and my parents didn’t want to take us out of school while I was a senior.

aren’t toddlers temper tantrums so irritating?

I know they’re supposed to be cute and all, but I think that it’s the most irritating age of children, and I sometimes turn and walk the other way when I see one coming. I despise the temper tantrums and the way the parents let them do whatever they want or maybe the parents just don’t know what to do in this day and age. or they seem to think that no one in the vicinity minds when their toddler screeches.

The saddest thing I ever saw was a woman who was trying to discipline her 3 year old daughter who was hitting her (?) and the poor mother got reprimanded by 2 complete strangers in the grocery store for being too harsh! What the…?!
Let parents reprimand their toddlers for their temper tantrums, otherwise they will grow up to think the world owes them something.
I don’t want to parent toddlers ever if I can help it. But I have been a foster parent to older children (over and teenagers. This works for me. I enjoy it very much and have a gift with kids that I can reason with. My weakness is toddlers. I just don’t get them. Sorry if my question was harsh. Nowadays no one is really supposed to say anything negative about children, and I should have remembered to keep my mouth shut. haha

Do you expect your toddlers to have temper tantrums?

Both at home and publically? Do you think you can raise children in such a way that they never have temper tantrums?

What do you think is the best way to handle a toddler’s temper tantrums?

My daughter is only 10 months old, so I haven’t had to deal with the tantrums just yet…lucky me My sister has a 3 year old son. His tantrums can get so bad that no amount of consoling, negotiations, or discipline can make it better. He’s not autistic or anything…he’s just a very stubborn child (he takes after me sister). Usually when he has a tantrum, my sister just puts him in his room and ignores him until he’s found some way to distract himself or forgets why he’s even having a tantrum. That way, she isn’t acknowledging the behavior and my nephew is safe in his room. How she deals with it in public is a different story I’ve never had to deal with temper tantrums before so I’m looking to get idea before mine hits the terrible 1-5′s

My mother loses her nerve way too quickly over petty things?

To put in context, I’ll write the incident that sparked me running to Y!A for advice:

We have a chest of drawers in the hallway that is supposed to be in my room, but before it can be in my room, my dad needs to put the coffee table that’s in my room into storage. There’s just no room for the chest of drawers if the table is not removed. My mother is vacuuming the hallway the chest is in and dumped it in the middle of my room. I jokingly asked her it was going to stay in my room–there’s just no room for is and it’s literally been dumped in the middle, and then she started getting overly emotional about it and saying how it’s mine so it should go in my room, how we have guests coming over (in two weeks, btw), and lame excuses like that while getting herself way too worked up and raising he voice unnecessarily higher when I try to tell her about how the chest can’t be moved into my room until the table is placed into storage. And then THAT opens a whole new storm. My parents are divorced, so naturally, despite having gotten her approval for this, she doesn’t want my father taking the table because “it’s an antique and it’s mine, do he can’t have it.” It’s like toddler‘s temper tantrum, really.

I’ve noticed that if I let her screech on and speak to her in a calm voice, that helps, but don’t see why I have to deal with this anyway since she’s just being immature.

So, what can I do to prevent situations like this from arising again?
My parents didn’t recently divorce. They did that over a decade ago and everyone in the family was a lot happier when they did. It was just in the moment she was feeling grudgy.

An extension of my last question…?

(Sorry to be a little repetitive).

Would you say that the main methods of dealing with temper tantrums and disobedience in toddlers are:
Spanking
Time Out
Distraction
Redirection
Ignoring
Verbal Warning
Raised Voices/Shouting
?

Anyone who didn’t answer my previous question, which of those (or what else) did/do you use with your toddler?

And anyone… Is there anything that is not included in that list (and isn’t basically the same thing as one of those things but with a different name) that has given any parents a breakthrough or even short term success with a difficult toddler?

I’m a burnt out single mother of one with no parenting experience before my 2 year old son and I’m really feeling out of my depth at the moment. I’ve tried everything on that list, researched and practiced all the options (bar the last one – on the occasions I’ve raised my voice that isn’t a ‘technique’ but rather me getting to the end of my tether), tried to keep it consistent over time, nothing works. I’ve already read lots of links and had lots of advice concerning the above options, so I don’t need any more information on that. I’m just wondering if there is anything *else* I haven’t thought of yet? By the way this is for a 2 year old who is not talking yet and only understands a limited amount of what I say – so the verbal discipline option is fairly limited at the moment.
I forgot to add cuddling. I ALWAYS try to cuddle my son when he is upset, talk to him soothingly and show him love, even if he’s just been very naughty. It’s the first thing I do. But for the last few months I just get hit, scratched or headbutted until I’m forced to move away.

Need help getting toddlers to nap?

I’m a new nanny for two little girls. They are 21 months and 3 years old. They both throw major temper tantrums when I try to lay them down for nap time (around 2:30). I can tell they are exhausted, but they just won’t go to sleep. Should I just shut the door and let them cry for a while, or stay in the room with them? Any advice will be very much appreciated.

Bringing home a newborn with a toddler?

My son is two weeks old now, so I guess we’ve been home about a week and a half. My daughter, who is 18 months, has been absolutely wonderful. She pats him on the head (gently, of course) and gives him kisses on the forehead, and I swear I’ve heard her say “brother” a few times. She even goes over to his pack-n-play to check on him when he starts crying. She’s even been behaving better in other respects; she’s attempting more words, she’s acting better at mealtimes (although she was never really bad, and she is starting to get to the “picky eater” stage). She’s suddenly (like, overnight) trying to be more independant, wanting to drink from adult cups and wanting to feed herself all the time, which she never really was interested in.

What has happened to my daugher?? Where is my little hellion with the temper tantrums and the screaming fits? I expected unbridled jealousy, and instead I get this little angel. I’ve got to admit, I’m not sure how to take it.

Kidding! I’m glad she’s taking it better than I expected.

Anyway, all joking aside, there’s one thing I’ve noticed that is kind of weird to me. All of a sudden she’s carrying her “lovey” around all the time. She used to just hug it when she went to sleep, but now she carries it all around the house. She asks for it (usually just by pointing, granted) at the strangest times, like when she’s eating or sitting on the couch with us, or playing with another toy. Is this normal? Do you think it’s her way of comforting herself with all the changes that have been going on around here? Should I encourage her to keep carrying it around, or try to keep her from becoming too dependant on it? There’s no harm in her being attatched to a stuffed toy… Right?

What’s wrong with my toddler? Is it my fault?

My son will be two next month and he is out of control. He hits and throws dozens of temper tantrums each day. He does not talk, though I know he understands me because he follows directions very well. He seems to be very hyper. He will run in circles for a half hour or more at a time, screaming, run up and down stairs and back and forth. This is non stop for hours. I have no choice but to keep him pinned up in the house all day because my husband has the car at work and our neighborhood is not safe to walk through, nor could I control my toddler while holding his three week old brother after just having had a c-section. I try to involve him with the new baby but he just hits the baby or runs away crying. I try to have 1-on-1 time with my toddler but he runs to the corner and screams as if I’m the most horrible person on the planet. He can’t talk so he doesn’t say he hates me but I’m pretty sure that’s what his squawking translates to. I’ve tried time outs, I’ve tried taking away every single toy and book he owns. He just gets increasingly violent. Even if I put him in time out away from everyone in a confined area, he starts hitting himself!
I’m very concerned and all I want to do is take away whatever is making my 2 year old so miserable.
My husband trys to help when he is here but he works all the time and when he is home he is exhausted. Neither of us has family in the state and because our jobs and children are so demanding we don’t even have friends to help us. We are very poor and cannot afford a nanny.

What can I do to help my toddler? What could be wrong with him and is it my fault? What should I do?
He will be seeing a doctor soon but we are chaging doctors becuase of the new baby so it will be about a month or so. His pediatrician’s office couldn’t see the new baby and we wanted to keep them together.
But we will be discussing his behavior very thoroghly.
Taking him to public places is usually out of the question. We have been told multiple times we have to leave the library because of his behavior and due to my recent surgery I can’t really watch him at the park too well. We have been asked to leave multiple places because he was throwing and breaking things.

How do I teach ‘Inside voice’ to a 2 y/o?

My 2 y/o screams in happiness. And he’s ALWAYS happy. He has always been a happy baby/toddler…He is not throwing a temper tantrum. We have tried whispering to him, simply telling him ‘no we need to use our inside voice’, screaming louder than him, and even tried a light pop after telling him no…. He thinks its a game and laughs and screams louder…