Help please! I have a 4 1/2 year old boy and a 19 months old girl. DD is in the habit of screaming when she does not get her way! When she is home alone without her brother she is such a sweet fun girl. If there is even a chance that brother is going to take a toy from her she screams! We have been working on this, making sure brother asks nicely for the toy and make sure sister shares, and it is getting better. What is really getting to me is when we are out in public and I am carrying my daughter she will want down and will scream! The biggest time this is a problem is when we are picking my son up from pre-school. She wants down and run around the hall until we get him. There are kindergarten classes in this hall and I don't want her to just run into the rooms (I am sure they don't appreciate the screaming) she also screams when older kids are coming at her fast, I am sure out of fear so I guess I get that. She seems to do fine with kids her own age. I don't know how to get her to stop screaming! She has around 100 words or so I guess and some small sentences, so I don't think it is screaming out of frustration that she cannot communicate. My son was always so chill, and my daughter is so much more of a handful! How do I get her to stop screaming? Please help!
All little girls scream - it's just what they do. You can try to tell her to stop; you can remind her of her "inside voice" but it probably won't help. She will outgrow it.
My daughter (now 2) started this and I quickly decided I will not put up with that. It's waaay too annoying. So we would tell her NO. NO SCREAMING. And give her a timeout. Every single time. She would never get her way when she screamed. You are screaming, so no, you cannot have this toy and you can have a timeout. Timeouts work well for her...she really hates them. I will make her have one in public against a wall...at her brother's school or even in the grocery store. She learned pretty fast to stop screaming.
You have to discipline the screaming consistently at home and once or twice in public (bathroom, car) until she gets it. It doesn't matter why she's screaming. She has learned it's the absolute "power of chaos" move and she won't stop for mild measures or because you try to prevent it. My third was a screamer too, but when she NEVER got away with it, she quit. At 2 1/2 she's really really good and never screams without good reason. We just got back from an hour long violin recital she sat through perfectly. Get the book "Back to Basics Discipline" by Janet Campbell Matson.
I have 1 boy 1 girl, they are 2 years apart, my son is the oldest. once my daughter got to the age of about 2 she started screaming whenever her brother had a toy/ anything she wanted she would also scream when she didnt get her way. I had to start punishing her right away cause the ear piercing screams were enough to drive anyone completely insane. My son started giving her whatever toy she wanted just to shut her up so I had to break him of that and try to get her to stop screaming cause the more my son gave into his sis the worse she got. I started sending her to the corner everytime she screamed. She stopped screaming after awhile but it wasnt easy, just hang in there and stay on top of it and dont give into her and she swill eventually stop even thou it may seem easier to give in at the moment when shes screaming, dont do it. Stay strong!
All little girls DO NOT become SCREAMERS.....is there anyone in your family that your child is exposed to that YELLS/Screams?
