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Frequently, but I voted a week because he's in daycare full time so we don't go out in public too much. A few times a week. He tantrums when he hasn't napped or is hungry. We've had a few that lasted like 45 minutes (only about 15 minutes in public before we left and he continued.) I have a very strong willed boy.

I voted once a month, but if we are talking full blown tantrums, I probably should have voted never (or pretty much never). I can think of a time when one DD, and I honestly can't remember for sure which one it was, totally lost her stuff about a snack in the grocery store. She was in the stroller, I was almost finished shopping, and I had to check out because I'd shopped into my stroller! I just mostly ignored it and spoke soothingly aloud, more for the benefit of other customers being able to "see" I was doing something than because I actually thought it would calm my daughter.

We definitely have our share of me having to forcibly strap an uncooperative child into a stroller to get home from an activity or the park, and that involves some degree of crying, "noodling"/going limp, thrashing, or in the case of DD2, pushing....but honestly I don't feel embarrassed by that because it's in places loaded with kids. In general, I try not to take my kids in boring errands If I don't have to, and when they do need to come, I try to choose the best times of day for all of our patience levels and the stores/doctor/whatever being less crowded.

A friend also pointed out to me recently that my kids' tantrum volume is about a five, and to that reason, she wouldn't even consider their displays to be full blown tantrum. By comparison, she says her daughter (whose behavior I actually think is very mild) tantrums at about an eleven!

Throw himself on the floor screaming tantrums, never. But that's because when my son was small, if there was even a chance that he would do something like that (usually when he was overtired or hungry), I would just stay home...trust me, don't do that. It was soooo isolating.

He's still young at 2.5 so it's really only happened once at Target. He's done it at home plenty but in public, he is easily distracted and doesn't do it at all.