About 15 yrs ago, when I was taking my ECE courses, we were asked what we thought about nature vs. nurture. The teacher told us that most students will find themselves closer to the nurture end of the scale. I certainly did. She also said that the longer you work with children, more often, we will start to slide farther and farther over to the nature side.

So here I am now, almost as far over to the nature side as I can go. While I do know, we can influence some behaviours (like whining in order to get something) ultimately, kids are who they are. From birth. Forever. The screamers scream. Its what they do. And for the rest of us it sucks. I have had a few screamers too. Eventually, they will stop the continual, all day screaming and save it for the days you already have a headache. Of course, there's a lot of advil between now and then.....

sorry...guess I'm getting a little philosophical today.