Tantrums and the Terrible Twos!

I read recently that the "Terrible Two's" is an awful description for the phenomenon known as toddler tantrums, because they in fact, usually start around 15 months (check!) and they last until you send the child off to college (oh boy!) Lets hope that's an exaggeration! Tantrum season is upon us. The first couple were hilarious, the public ones are morbidly embarrassing, and then you get to a point where you continue on with what you are doing and find that if you take it with a grain of salt, they are much easier to navigate through until you find your happy child again. What seems to work for us at this stage in the game is diverging all attention to something else, or to help Dylan talk out his frustrations. I'm sure in a lot of ways, the game will change and in some aspects become much easier and in others, that much more of a challenge. Ahhh...the joys of parenting...