9 month old throwing tantrums already?

abigail has always pushed me to my limit since birth- she seriously always has to be by me- if she isn't she will cry while crawling to find me- josiah is totally able to play alone and with my friends kids-
does your child throw tantrums? like cries for no reason at all- or throws her head back and arches her back? or throws her head on the ground when something is taken away- seriously what do you do?

 

When they are that age and throwing tantrums, the only thing you can do is ignore them. That usually solves the problem.

Mine started having tantrums about that age, so it is a normal thing.

 

My boy totally does that, and started about that age or maybe a little later. He still does it, but I don't reward it. If I am holding him at the time, I just hold him where he can't slam into me. He has cracked my chest bone with his head many a time flinging himself back. If he still won't calm, I stick him into the playpen until he settles down. I also calmly tell him no. He is finally starting to get it... but tantrums don't end any time soon (my 4-year-old is proof of that). The worst thing you can do is reward it by doing what the baby wants (picking up, giving a toy back, whatever). They usually give up pretty quickly. Of course, make sure it's a real tantrum (they're pretty easy to spot) and not something wrong. Beyond that, if she is starting early with the tantrums, you should definitely start early teaching her they don't work.

Good luck! I can definitely sympathize with the early tantrum situation. Heheh.

 

My girls are getting very vocal on how they feel. They both throw tantrums, I move them to the rug (I have hard wood floors) and walk away. The tantrum don't last very long, but they are very persistant so when they see I won't reward it they'll just get up and try again. I end up do this a few times before they finally give up. Recently they have learned to talk back, yeah at nine months they talk (more like yell or cry) back to me. So now when I take something from them and they start yelling I tell them "no, do not yell at me." Thankfully this is all working for now. It makes me nervous thinking about how they might be at 2 and 3 years old. But hopefully I'll kick in the butt before it gets to bad.

I don't know why God thought I needed two little girls just like their mother.

 

DD has started these, too. She'll lay on her back and kick her feet while she cries. We don't reward, but either redirect to a toy or ignore her until she forgets why she was screaming in the first place.

Nice to see her asserting her independence, but doesn't give an indicator that she'll be easy-going as a toddler, does it?!?!

 

My daughter- also an Abigail has thrown tantrums for a little while now. When I take something away from her or her brother grabs her toy we hear about it. I can usually just end it by distracting her with something else.

 

Mine have started the tantrums as well. I also think they yell back at me. It's like when they don't get what they want, they cuss at me in their jibberish language. I always wondering what they are trying to say to me.

 

Tantrums! Tell me about it, Sophie is the queen of tantrums. I took them to the supermarket the other day and Sophie was munching on the list i had made. When i took it off her she started screaming and went bright red. The little arms and legs where going and everything!! She has been doing this for about 2 months lol! It is quite funny! x