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The best thingis to ignore them, because ultimately tantrums are about getting attention or forcing you to change your mind. Take away the audience and the tantrum serves no purpose. Take away the reward, and it ceases to be a strategy for getting one's way. My standard line is, "Go in your room and cry because I don't want to hear all that noise." Almost invariably, the child marches off to their room, (or is tossed in there, if necessary). The kid then slams his or her body down on the floor or bed dramatically and sobs for, like, two minutes before they realize the door is closed and nobody is watching. Then they come outside, calmly whimpering, and then and only then we talk about what ignited the firestorm in the first place. My daughter never hit anyone during these episodes. She just made a lot of noise. My son, on the other hand, hit others and even himself. He'd slap himself in the face, or bang his head on the wall or floor. It was very scary. But I stuck to...

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