Addyabby- Yes, distraction. It's so funny to me how my daughter can get so upset over something, but is so easily distracted by something else. One of the things we've done is that since my daughter has always wanted to do everything herself, we've given her chores from the time she could walk. Whenever she starts getting into a tantrum, we give her a task. Somehow that seems to distract her. She just sets out doing the task. And we always present it as a challenge: "Do you think you can put those blocks in that box?" We've also recently resorted to just pointing something else out. "Look at those ducks over, there. "
I'm still holding my breath, though, because although the tantrums started at 12 months, we haven't had full blown major tantrums. I don't know if that's because we've just prevented them, or because the worst is yet to come. She's 18 months now. I don't know what the terrible twos will be like.
