Sunday, March 9, 2008

Major Fits Today

Anyone have recommendations for dealing with major meltdown-type fits from 3 year olds? What about 8 year olds? My patience wears thin way too often when the pitch of the screams gets too high and/or when they start hitting the walls/doors. Please post your suggestions!

2 comments:

Greg Hanson said...

"Love & Logic" is the latest intervention philosophy/parental coaching we're looking into. I've been able to use some of the techniques (the only ones I've learned so far) and they've been very successful.

Jason Carson said...

I need to go back review it. We've used it on/off - just not consistently, and that's part of the problem I think. My favorite is the brain-dead technique -- "I know..." ;)