Hellobee Boards

We have a happy screamer. When she's upset she cries more than screams. But when she gets excited she gets LOUD.

yes and its also my 2nd child!

Yes. She's always been a screamer (second night in the hospital we tried to send her to the nursery to get some rest but they brought her back 10 minutes later and said we had to keep her because they couldn't calm her down. I'd been a mom for like a hot minute so it's not like I could actually calm her down either, haha!). Anyway, she feels things very strongly and likes to make her feelings known. She has a large signing vocabulary (but almost no spoken words at 15 months) so we are working on having her express what she needs with signs. But sometimes what she wants is still unreasonable (to stand on the end table, chew on the tube of sunscreen, etc) so there's still a good deal of screaming. Luckily her twin is more even keeled.

Yes. The screaming is honestly killing us. It's been going on since 12 mo (now 22 mo) and it's just getting worse. He is slow to speak as well and I'm sure that's part of it.
Anyone have any tips on how to stop it?

What is it with second kids? DD2 is a screamer. Shrieker, is more like it. Ugh.