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Hurmm.. she hasn't thrown a huge one yet!

This thread makes me feel better. I always feel like every tantrum is the worst tantrum ever.

DS loves his daycare and if he is outside playing, he used to get so mad when I showed up to pick him up. One day he was outside and after playing with him for a few minutes I picked him up to leave. He started hitting me in the face. I grabbed his hands to stop him and put him on the ground on his butt for a time out. Didn't work and he started hitting and then biting me. This whole time he is screaming and wriggling around like a madman. I give up on the time out thing and just try to get out. He then bites my shoulder hard, just as we are at the car. I set him down for another time out. He kicks me and then grabs handfuls of the gravel on the drive way and throws it at me. Then as I'm trying to get him in his car seat he goes strait as a board and throws himself out of the seat. It was awful. He was about 16 months old and 29 pounds, so by the time he was strapped in, I was exhausted.

Another time we were at the consignment shop getting him a few new things. He was great until it was time to leave. My hands were full and I scooped him up with one arm. He got mad and bit into my neck/shoulder and didn't let go. With my hands full and not wanting to make a scene, I just left, wincing, until I got to my car.

Thankfully his tantrums involve less hitting and biting and more stomping his feet and crying. I was at my wits end with the hitting and biting.