I thought the high pitched squeeling and jumping up and down came earlier....

[weezix]

DD is nearly Four. She has been a very challenging and exhausting three year old. I love her to bits but WOW her curiosity and enthusiasm for life is pretty draining. You can not turn your back on this kid or something will get destroyed.

Anyway...I'm hoping that soon she will be working herself out of this stage as she will be turning 4 in 3 months. The last month or so she has completely forgotten how to communicate. If her siblings do something she doesn't like, she will jump up and down and scream in this high pitched 2 year old tantrum type squeel, flapping her arms and hitting everything in her path.

Isn't that normal behavior for a 2 YEAR OLD?? Are we going backwards here? Yikes. When they were little and acted like that I normally ignored the behaviour and just said something like "Wow, you must be really frustrated" or something to that effect because I knew it was just a phase that usually shows up around the time the kids learn to talk.

Simply ignoring it on a kid this age that hasn't acted like that since she was two seems like the wrong thing to do. Any ideas?

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I think it peaks at six, and drops off somewhere between age eight and nineteen.

Idunno... I had three 18 yr old girls over here last night, and it seemed to be in full swing.

[weezix]

Originally Posted by nextcommercial

I think it peaks at six, and drops off somewhere between age eight and nineteen.

Idunno... I had three 18 yr old girls over here last night, and it seemed to be in full swing.

oh geez. and i'm having another girl. that will be FOUR teenage girls in my house at one time. YIKES!

so...what you are saying is...invest in some earplugs? LOL

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Originally Posted by weezix

so...what you are saying is...invest in some earplugs? LOL

Naaa... we just put a tv in the master bedroom.

One of my daughter's friends can say "OHMYGAwwdddd" and I'm sure it ends in a sound that only dogs can hear, because it's so high pitched and loud. She's been kicked out of two college dorms because she's too loud.

[EdnaMarie]

My husband is presently bribing DD1, just turned four, to say, "Allahu Akbar!" instead of squealing. (He's Muslim.) It's worked to some extent. She starts to squeal, then she screams, "ALLAHU AKBAR!" LOL! She gets to do flips on us or have spinning hugs for that. This has been going on about a week, I'd say, and it has improved, though I doubt it's a long-term solution.