Screaming Toddler?

Question

My son is 2 (will be 3 in July) and he does this high pich scream all the time....OMG it get under my skin. He will do it for no reason at all and than again when he is excited. When I tell him...Shhhhh quite tone it just makes his scream louder. How do I control this if at all. i also have a daughter but she ever did this.
Any ideas? Anyone dealing with this.

Answer 1

I feel your pain on this one, my 14 month old son does the same thing all the time, he actually ended up wearing out his voice and now it is a bit raspy so it isn't as bad. But the way I deal with him is when he does it I put him on his tush and let him sit there and say when you stop screaming you and me will play again, or if he does it for no reason at all I usually wait it out a little bit and if he hasn't stopped I put him in his room for 10 minutes and usually after about 5 he is done screaming and i let him sit for a bit and then go and get him. I know how frustrating it can be but usually the best thing that works is try to distract them by singing a song or put music on my little one loves to dance so when music comes on he will just go to town it is so cute. Good luck to you

Answer 2

I have never experienced what you are going through however if I had this problem with my daughter this is what I would try.

I would talk to my child and be assertive when saying, I will no longer except this kind of screaming. I would have a designated spot for him to scream. I would walk him to the spot and explain to him that every time he screams he will be sent to his screaming spot. Make the spot somewhere other than his bedroom and a place where there are no toys or fun. Maybe he will realize that once he starts screaming again, he will go to his scream spot and not like it. I don't know, just a thought. Good luck and be consistent.

Answer 3

I dont have any children (properly except for the single in my tummy) and he has been startled some circumstances from sounds he has heard and touches I have given him. I went on maternity leave very last week (im now 33wks alongside) and change into operating previously that in an quite loud workplace. some circumstances a fellow workmember might want to drop trays on the floor with a noisy "bang" and bubba might want to bounce every time. now and again if i contact him even as he least expects it - he jumps. and prefer you reported with the screaming I were by potential of that too. i change into at my well being care specialist's surgical operation waiting to get in for an appointment even as a collection of twins screaming their heads off were given my toddler shifting right now. i imagine it startles him somewhat....yet collectively i imagine he likes it too. For some reason he reacts more effective to crying and children voices. I did ask my midwife about his listening to and different noises the way he reacts and she or he basically laughed. Her answer change into: "in case you imagine he is going to get scared from crying and sounds close to him now, imagine how he is going to be once you're screaming even as giving delivery!" So yeh i wouldnt hassle about it, i imagine each little thing will be wonderful ;)

Answer 4

The child has probably learned that screaming will get him his way. Whatever you do, don't give in to the scream. If he's screaming about a toy, put it away. If he's screaming about a piece of candy, DO NOT GIVE IT TO HIM. When he yells, tell him (calmly, don't scream back, even though you want to!) that if he doesn't stop yelling, he will be in time out. Give him two or three seconds to stop yelling, then put him in time out.

Just last night, my daughter was screaming, I put her in timeout and she screaming louder. BTW, her timeout is this small chair in her room. There was only her nightlight on, not the overhead light. Then I walked out of the room and began fixing dinner. Four minutes later (one minute for each year old, and she's four), I returned and asked if she was ready to be a good girl. She said "Yes" and after that, she was.

Good Luck!!

Answer 5

This is 2 separate issues in my opinion...

There is the excited scream... (hard to control that one... just keep working on it)...

The second one after told him to be quite is defiant behavior...

In my opinion... for the excited... reflex type screaming... a warning and then a time out or something of that nature is fine... but the scream louder after you told him to be quite should have elicited an imediate and stern response...

Good luck...

Answer 6

I think it's a phase. My son is 2 and did this for about a month. He just thought it was cool, I guess... Don't get me wrong, he still screams from time to time, but it is at appropriate times...not just out of the blue. Oh, by the way, I just let it be. I didn't make a big deal out of it and it lost it's coolness on it's own.

Answer 7

We have a time out chair that my 2 year old sits in in his room for two minutes at a time to discourage bad behavior, so far it works for everything except for his "spilling" habit. (If he finds a glass of liquid within reach it is dumped) He did go through a screaming phase but, we had not yet started the time out chair, we ignored him, it wasn't easy but the screaming phase went away fairly quickly. It sounds like(lol) your son is probably looking for attention so he should get less with a negative attention seeking behavior (and more when things are going well). I give my son one warning, letting him know if he doesn't stop immediately he will be going to his time out chair and it usually does the trick. Good luck.

Answer 8

He needs the words to express how he's feeling. Ask him "Are you excited?" and use other words to describe his mood or what's going on. Then he can say "I'm excited!" instead of screaming.

Answer 9

Just a phase. Ignore it. As his vocabulary gets better and he gets older, it'll disappear. Maybe invest in some ear plugs :)

Answer 10

Smack his @ss and tell him to be quiet.