My child is a nuisance.

[weelass24]

puddle is wise. stick something in her mouth.

Have you tried reasoning with her?

[melindafelinda]

Sing to her.

[manzer1979]

I have a screamer too. She sometimes startles me, the cat, probably the neighbors lol! I find that she does it more when she's getting tired- she'll get slaphappy and just start screaming her head off. I hope it's just a phase

[Deleted]

My friend's daughter discovered the ability to screech happily on a 7 hour drive. Their poor son then started with "Mom! Make her STOP! She's bugging me!"

Fun times.

[Deleted]

Blow in her face. She'll hold her breath, thus = no screaming.


ETA. DS use to do this. He sounded like a pterodactyl. Good news it didnt last too long.

[circa1978]

Jul 27, 2012 13:51:12 GMT -5 toledo said:

Scream back.

I have tried this. It didn't work.

[ElizabethBennet]

My kid was HORRIBLE about this. I tried distracting her as much as possible but really they just grow out of it.

[wrathofkuus]

THIS is why I don't like babies and think that they should be nowhere, ever.

[partiallysunny]

Nothing. Blush and mutter sorry while trying to duck down another aisle. I try to talk to him really soft and tell him we use inside voices, but, yeah, he doesn't get it. So I give him a graham cracker.

It's a phase. She wants to show off and practice what she just learned.

We went through a deep evil laugh/babble stage. OMG, the looks we got.

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Jul 27, 2012 14:09:43 GMT -5 @fogducker said:

Blow in her face. She'll hold her breath, thus = no screaming.


ETA. DS use to do this. He sounded like a pterodactyl. Good news it didnt last too long.

omg!! we called the the "pteordactyl screech of joy" when L did it!

lasted about 2 months intermittently. we'd just laugh and move on. she did it more when she was doing something really physical (like swinging or crawling or whatever), so we'd give her smaller toys and things to suck on to distract her.