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<blockquote data-quote="Lil" data-source="post: 688738" data-attributes="member: 17309"><p>You aren't wrong. He's always had tantrums. He's always been moody. We used to say he was like a teenage girl. Even as an infant, not walking yet, he'd have episodes where he'd get so angry...he's ball his tiny fists and grit his toothless gums together and just <em>scream</em>. Not a cry, not distress...screaming. His first real tantrum he was 2...he just lost it. Eventually, I realized he didn't even know I was there anymore...he was just lost in his head screaming and - I smacked him. I couldn't think of what else to do - he literally didn't know I was there. I felt like a monster after; my hand was as big as his whole face! But he stopped screaming, started crying, and went to sleep....just like that. But kid's have tantrums right? And I just expected it. </p><p></p><p>And it's not like he couldn't control himself. When he was 3 he had a tantrum that lasted like 1/2 an hour. I was so worn out from trying to deal with him (he was trying to leave the house, so I couldn't just let him alone) that I stuck him in a cold shower. I pulled him out and he screamed at me and tried to bite me and I said, "Back you go" and he said, "NO IT'S COLD" and that was that. He calmed down. After that, for several years, I could just say, "Do you want to go in the shower?" and he'd calm down. </p><p></p><p>Eventually, that stopped working though, he got too big to threaten with that.</p><p></p><p>So yeah, terrible temper...but it never seemed to be a real "problem" until a few years ago...you see, he won't let it go. He won't leave you alone and let everyone calm down. He gets in your face and won't stop. You leave the room, he follows. You tell him to go away, he refuses. It's ... exhausting. Does he do this with anyone else? I don't know. Probably. It's what got him kicked out of his grandparents, but he wasn't this bad there. He left the house and calmed down without being told to. So it's really just us. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lil, post: 688738, member: 17309"] You aren't wrong. He's always had tantrums. He's always been moody. We used to say he was like a teenage girl. Even as an infant, not walking yet, he'd have episodes where he'd get so angry...he's ball his tiny fists and grit his toothless gums together and just [I]scream[/I]. Not a cry, not distress...screaming. His first real tantrum he was 2...he just lost it. Eventually, I realized he didn't even know I was there anymore...he was just lost in his head screaming and - I smacked him. I couldn't think of what else to do - he literally didn't know I was there. I felt like a monster after; my hand was as big as his whole face! But he stopped screaming, started crying, and went to sleep....just like that. But kid's have tantrums right? And I just expected it. And it's not like he couldn't control himself. When he was 3 he had a tantrum that lasted like 1/2 an hour. I was so worn out from trying to deal with him (he was trying to leave the house, so I couldn't just let him alone) that I stuck him in a cold shower. I pulled him out and he screamed at me and tried to bite me and I said, "Back you go" and he said, "NO IT'S COLD" and that was that. He calmed down. After that, for several years, I could just say, "Do you want to go in the shower?" and he'd calm down. Eventually, that stopped working though, he got too big to threaten with that. So yeah, terrible temper...but it never seemed to be a real "problem" until a few years ago...you see, he won't let it go. He won't leave you alone and let everyone calm down. He gets in your face and won't stop. You leave the room, he follows. You tell him to go away, he refuses. It's ... exhausting. Does he do this with anyone else? I don't know. Probably. It's what got him kicked out of his grandparents, but he wasn't this bad there. He left the house and calmed down without being told to. So it's really just us. :( [/QUOTE]
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