Temper tantrums!!

[5 Little Monkeys]

Depending on what you are doing, are you able to end the outing and just come home? It's not ideal but you will likely only have to do it a couple times before the child realizes you mean business. I have taken 15 minutes to dress the 4 kids to go outside and than be out for 5 minutes and bring them all back when a child was not listening. I've had to do it once and so far that was it.

I also had a child who didn't care if she was in timeouts so I had to approach it from a different angle. She loved to sit on the pink chair instead of the green ones. She was only allowed the pink chair at afternoon snack if the whole day had been a good one. After awhile, this stopped and she was allowed to sit on it all day again but if she had even one minute of bad behaviour she didn't get it at all that day and the next day would go back to only afternoon if she proved she could behave.

I don't enjoy tantrums nor will I tolerate them for very long BUT I do think kids are allowed to have a crappy attitude from time to time just as we adults do. It can't affect the other kids and I try to teach them ways to deal with their behaviour instead of a tantrum but every now and then we all just need time to be by ourselves and have a fit. lol