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Nav:   post #1 of 11 Thread Starter   Well, the title pretty
much says it all.  I have an almost 3 year old who is starting
to have temper tantrums (for lack of a better term) more and
more frequently.  Sometimes he gets mad because we say no to
something (like going outside in just his underwear- lol) or we
have to come in for lunch, or he wants me to stay with him for
rest time but I have to go attend the baby (I have an almost 7
month old too.)    Some of it is his age, some of it is having a
new brother and just moving to a new state in
May.  Theoretically I understand this, but the screaming, the
crying, hitting, lashing out, etc. is really getting to me.  I
start off well, sympathizing, etc., but it ends up going
downnhill.  He upsets his baby brother and ends up making him
cry, so then I've got 2 frantically crying children to