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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Four year olds are hard but don’t give up - you need to regain control.  Establish expectations for behavior and start working towards those behavioral goals.  We use time outs, it’s worked well for us.  Put in your ear pods if you have to so you can drown out the screaming but make it clear that is not acceptable behavior.  We also do a lot of incentives for positive behavior vs punishment and that has worked well.  Sticker charts or even something as simple as a gummy bear have helped our child work towards better behavior.  [b]We cut out tv and iPads except for very special circumstances[/b] not because I am anti screen time (I think some is fine) but for our daughter it led to tantrums and bad behavior so cutting it off helped.  Last things we focus on is sleep and healthy eating.

That was a bit of a random brain dump but it’s worked for us, bottom line is you can’t give up.  You can change her bahavior and it’ll lead to a much more peaceful life.  All of this is assuming their isn’t any underlying issues and she’s just a normal wild kid.[/quote]

This!! My now 8yo is generally well behaved, but the TV always, ALWAYS lead to tantrums when it was turned off.  Even now at 8, it causes problems so we’ve cut out all screen time during the week.[/quote]

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