DEALING WITH OUR KIDS TANTRUMS

Yes dealing with our kids tantrums. My 6 year old son had a tantrum wanting to ride a bike that was too small for him and it had to happen as we were leaving for school. When my 6 year old has a TANTRUM it can last a while for him to calm down and move on. This situation was he wanted to ride a bike that was too small for him was resolved pretty quickly knowing if he was late to school he'd be in trouble, so having to be at school on time helped him get over his tantrum. It happened yesterday and today I was thinking the transition my son has been through and looked at things from his point of view. I saw my son leaving preschool to starting school that's a HUGE CHANGE where things done at preschool are different at school and the changes that have to happen. His tantrum with his bike he used to ride a lot and now he's grown too big to ride it anymore that's a change too and a sad one for him. It's great I do see his point of view to help me understand what his tantrums are about :)

Today my other 8 year old son had a tantrum 'cause his ball went over the neighbours fence (second time) and I said just leave it we don't want to annoy the painter (first time we went over we met our neighbour's painter and had to walk through the house to find my son's ball and knowing this I wasn't having us annoy the painter again). My son got really angry, so angry he started throwing things outside, I locked the door for our safety and walked away to sort my 6 year old for bed, yes ignored my 8 year olds naughty behaviour, I learned this from a parenting course I did 2 years ago and it's stuck with me since. After getting my 6 year old ready for bed I went to see my 8 year old to see if he had calmed down. I unlocked the door and said "Have you calmed down?" his reply was "No!" he grabbed something then went back outside. Eventually he calmed down and was able to tell me why he was angry, it was 'cause the neighbours have a dog and my son was worried the dog would eat the ball. I said just let the dog have the ball, balls are cheap as chips and we'd buy him another one. He calmed down and felt reassured that although he lost a ball it was going to be replaced and that made him happy.

DO ANY OF YOUR KIDS HAVE OUT OF CONTROL TANTRUMS TOO?