I have a 3.5 yo dcg that also did this. She also pulled some extremely dramatic manipulation of Mom and Dad at my front door during pick up a few times, too. I also have very little tolerance for this kind of behaviour. Taking away attention from this behaviour is a great thing to do, because that's obviously what they want. At 3, 40 minutes of screaming is absolutely unacceptable.
I put my foot down with this girl. It only took a few days with mine to snap her out of that behaviour. Once she realized that she wasn't getting away with it... and had a couple of time outs... she decided to behave appropriately.

































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