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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 425353" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thanks for the good advice. The "book", by the way, is not a real one but a fictitious title that I am "working my way through" as I learn, rather cackhandedly sometimes, to deal with my child. One of the confusing factors for me, I think, is that in France children REALLY are very heavily disciplined and well behaved. When a parent says go, they are expected to jump and mainly do... And you very rarely see children having tantrums in public here. So it is perhaps easy for me to start getting false expectations about what J "should" be doing... Interesting for me to hear that this is normal behaviour for a four year old. I've also just read all this stuff about how tantrums beyond the age of three are rare - yet every time J doesn't have what he wants or faces an unexpected change, he "makes a fuss" about it. Though he will NEVER go on for hours - is this really physically possible? Literally hours? He just gets bored of the tantrum after a while, I suppose, and wants to move on to something more interesting. </p><p>The point about me having to be aware of the triggers is a good one. I was just thinking of "me" - and really just wanting , as well, to be like all these other parents who say "Right we're going" and the child trots obediently after...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 425353, member: 11227"] Thanks for the good advice. The "book", by the way, is not a real one but a fictitious title that I am "working my way through" as I learn, rather cackhandedly sometimes, to deal with my child. One of the confusing factors for me, I think, is that in France children REALLY are very heavily disciplined and well behaved. When a parent says go, they are expected to jump and mainly do... And you very rarely see children having tantrums in public here. So it is perhaps easy for me to start getting false expectations about what J "should" be doing... Interesting for me to hear that this is normal behaviour for a four year old. I've also just read all this stuff about how tantrums beyond the age of three are rare - yet every time J doesn't have what he wants or faces an unexpected change, he "makes a fuss" about it. Though he will NEVER go on for hours - is this really physically possible? Literally hours? He just gets bored of the tantrum after a while, I suppose, and wants to move on to something more interesting. The point about me having to be aware of the triggers is a good one. I was just thinking of "me" - and really just wanting , as well, to be like all these other parents who say "Right we're going" and the child trots obediently after... [/QUOTE]
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