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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You let her have her meltdown, and *then* put her in a short timeout. You can also inform her then that screen time is being taken away for the next day.

If she melts down again from having to go into timeout, you wait it out, again. Then start the timer for timeout and give her time to cool off.

The point is to let her have a chance to learn how to control her emotions, not to stop the tantrum right now or even today. You talking and telling her that she's losing yet another day of screen time is not giving her time to calm herself down. She needs quiet and space.[/quote]

OP. I can see the logic here. But how do you enforce a timeout if the melting-down kid keeps opening the door and chasing you around the house to keep hitting or yelling? I've tried holding the door of her room closed but she just pounds and screams "OPEN IT! OPEN IT! LET ME OUT!" and gets even more agitated. [/quote]

We let DD destroy her room.  Tell her to come out when she's calmed down and ready to behave.  Once she calms down, she tells us she's ready and then cleans up her room.[/quote]

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