Here is an exerpt from a site I just found:
How often do most kids tantrum? And how long do tantrums generally last? The parents in this study reported that, on average, tantrums lasted for:
* two minutes in one-year-olds
* four minutes in two- to three-year-olds
* five minutes in four-year-olds
and occurred:
* eight times a week for one-year-olds
* nine times a week for two-year-olds
* six times a week for three-year-olds
* five times a week for four-year-olds.
from http://raisingchildren.net.au/articles/temper_tantrums.html
Now considering that Bear has at least 4 of these short tantrums in addition to one to two mega-tantrums per DAY, something seems a bit out of whack. He's always been like this and we've been hoping he would grow out of it, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I even did a tantrum log of just the mega-tantrums for a week and once I shared that with his pediatrician she referred him on to a group that tests for developmental problems.
We didn't do this earlier because both his pediatrician and I are very non-interventionist in our method of dealing with health care. She told me that his tantrums were severe, but still on the normal scale. It took the tantrum log for us to realize that he might have blown the top off the scale.
I don't want to stick a label on the forehead of a not even three year old kid, but if it will make life any easier for him or us at this point we really have to.
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