feedback for "Parental Advisory: Eeeeeeek!"
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Thank you for this article. We have been struggling with our 12 month old. She is a screamer...happy baby who loves to just open her mouth and express herself with a smile on her face. It has been driving us nuts and I have dug up my child behaviour textbooks from my University days! I knew that this is a stage of development - a part of learning to communicate but wow...a challenge when it is your child sounding like she can beckon the dogs from miles around!
posted by : catfin on 3/5/2008 at 2:26 PM Flag For Abuse
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:) Great answer :)
posted by : rikkicarey on 3/5/2008 at 2:33 PM Flag For Abuse
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Yes, this is a phase, and they do grow out of it, but the idea of just rolling with it until they do was a bit unacceptable to me, and although punishment was not fair either, I found a redirect was absolutely needed. I used this trick, if I could not my son to respond to my request to use his indoor voices, then I put my finger in his mouth any time he was making inappropriate noises in inappropriate places. I only had to do this a few times, before I could just warn him that a wide open mouth indoors invited fingers. I had him differentiating between indoor appropriate and outdoor appropriate vocalizations within a week. It was much much better then riding it out for months.
posted by : csigel on 3/5/2008 at 2:49 PM Flag For Abuse
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our 2-year old is in a shrieking phase. it's annoying. but i figure it will pass. we say "inside voice please" and try to redirect. sometimes it works. sometimes not. :)
posted by : k1 on 3/5/2008 at 2:57 PM Flag For Abuse
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Oh, gosh, my daughter was a shrieker and we lived in California. My mom lived on the East Coast. We flew, a lot. I used to get the dirtiest looks and comments, but one day I had an older, good-looking pilot sit next to me. My daughter started shrieking at takeoff because she was excited, and he smiled and told me how cute she was and how he missed when his kids were young. He told me to ignore the rude passengers. Then he put on his Bose noise-cancelling headphones and enjoyed his flight.
posted by : neural on 3/6/2008 at 4:05 PM Flag For Abuse
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Lucky for him he had headphones, everyone else on the plane was not so lucky!!
posted by : dont have bose headphones on 3/12/2008 at 4:46 PM Flag For Abuse
