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Our son has found out that he can scream and at first we thought it was cute and my husband would imitate him and our son would scream back/ I told my husband to not do that because I didnt want him to scream all the time. Well he has started to often thru out the day my husband said that our son will forget that and not to worry and well he screams at the top of his lungs and laugh. We have been ignoring this for about 5 days and in church today he had some loud screams. Will he stop or are we in for a loud time. He thinks its cute I think that is why he is doing it I know our son is not upset?? Any advice?
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ugh, my sympathies. dd did this, a high pitched scream when she wanted something, when she wanted to irritate me, when she wanted to get back at me, there was that high-pitched scream. We tried ignoring it, punishing it and eventually settled on a low key routine. we decided to tell her in a regular voice that yelling wasn't allowed, gave her time out if she didn't heed the warnings. it all was played very nonchalantly. we didn't overreact, even though I really wanted to scream myself, lol. it took a while, I'd say several months but we never get screaming now (knock on wood) and she's 20 months.
how old is your son?
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How old?....When my 3 yr old was around 26-28 months she would scream ALL THE TIME.:eek: This went on for about 3 months. We just ingnored it but that only worked for a short time for she wouldn't stop until she got our attention.We did time out and that seemed to work. Maybe it's just with age, I don't know we can hope LOL. GOod luck and sorry I don't have much advice:)
The only cure I ever found was via my children's preschool. They always ask the children to "use their words" if the children scream or get physical. I've co-opted this saying and it's a GEM. Children get it.
Also, when they don't listen to YOU, the phrase I learned from the same school was, "Listen to my words." oohhh, that worked so often to get the little one's attention. Yea preschol teachers! susan
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