Baby Tantrums

[flower]

My 9 month old O has been displaying 'tantie' behaviour.
He flaps his arms like a chicken, screams at the top of his lungs, roars and shrieks, if he can't get what he wants to touch....has something taken off him (like a knife set)...is stopped from touching power points, or visitors CD collections and so on.
Basically what appears to be tantrums...but he's 9 months old!!!
He's been doing this for at least the last 3 weeks too!
Does anybody else have this display and what do you do about it? :confused:
It doesn't necessarily appear due to tiredness either.....
O's mom.

[Chickadee]

Distraction is all that works for us. Sometimes a complete change of scenery like going outside, have a bath, bribe with yummy snacks. And keep repeating to yourself that screaming and tantrums are bub's only form of communicating his frustration right now.

[draught]

Our 11 month old is exactly the same - a very determined young woman who gets very upset if you take the mobile phone from her, or the cart she is pushing runs into something and stops, or the ball she is chasing runs away........but doesn't get upset when her big sister pushes her over onto the concrete to get her out of the way - then she just gets up and keeps going!

I agree with Martha - at this age distraction is all you can do. That and put up with whinging for a few minutes until they find something new to try and shove in their mouth. I am dreading what this means for the toddler years though!

[Rell]

Nathan is 11mths and has been throwing tantrums for a few mths now. He throws him self on the ground, kicks his legs and screams. My DD was much older before the tantrums started so It looks like I'm in for a good time with him.
Like the others have said distraction is best at this age

good Luck

[Supermum]

Agreed - distraction is the best at this age. It didn't and doesn't always work for my two though as they are particularly strong-willed .... so to diffuse as quickly as possible I semi-mirror behaviour. If either Ben or Carter are in the throes of full on tanty mode they are generally lying face down or on their backs legs kicking in the air. I generally get down on the floor with them and pretend I'm looking for something and say "what's down here?" "did you drop something?" "is it under the fridge?". Strangely enough - it always works!

[dee dee]

I didn't think little bubs had tantrums but boy was I wrong. My cherub is almost 7 months and has quite a temper on her!! Over past few weeks she has really suprised me with her temper and mini tantrums. The only blessing is at this age I can easily distract her and the tantie stops quite quickly.
I keep thinking to myself, heaven help me when she gets closer to the "Terrible twos" stage :eek:

dee dee

[nemosmum]

Yep distraction works and if that fails I just ignore, ignore, ignore the offending behaviour or the tantrum until it stops.

DS (14mths) has now started frowning and shaking his pudgy little finger at me while saying "STOP" when I say no to him or take something away from him LOL :eek: