**Temper tantrums with a twist**
Sep 08 '00
Almost all children take a temper tantrum at one time or another. Some children take a lot of temper tantrums. I am a single mother of three children, and they have all taken their share.
My son has ADHD (Attention Deficit with Hyper activity Disorder), so therefore, he tends to take quite a few temper tantrums. That is a whole other story.
My youngest daughter, she don't take a lot of temper tantrums, but when she does, LOOK OUT!!!!!!! Her's are a whopping tantrums.
Most of the time the way that I deal with a temper tantrum, is time out, and the longer they throw a fit, the longer their time out is. Naturally, they also do not get what they had wanted.
Now on to my oldest daughter, now 13. She has taken her share of "thrown down, drag down" temper tantrums. I remember one year, when she was about three years old, she threw a tantrum I will never forget. It was about two days before Christmas, and we had gone into a convenience store, to get milk and bread. She seen a stuffed animal that she just had to have. I tried to explain to her that Santa Claus would be coming in a couple days, and that maybe he would bring her one. Well that just wasn't good enough. She had to have it then and there, and when I told her no, she threw herself down on the floor, right in the middle of the store and threw a crying, screaming fit. I was angry, and embarrassed. I wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. There was a man there who watched the whole time while this was going on, and when he left the store, he handed my daughter the stuffed animal that she had wanted. The nerve of him, going against my word like that. She got what she had wanted, and then the tantrum was over. But it wasn't, I followed the man out the door and handed it back to him, and said, "Thanks but no thanks, she needs to learn that she can not have every thing that she wants. Well when we got home, she was put in time out, and after a little while she forgot about the toy.
You are probably wondering what I mean by "Temper tantrums with a twist", the title of this. Well here we go.
My oldest daughter, the one I was just writing about, took another kind of "temper tantrum". Though I did not consider them temper tantrums, after very much testing, the doctors claimed that this is what they were.
From the time she was about four months old, till she was about six years old, she did something that would scare any parent to death, and it nearly did me.
One day when she was four months old, and rolling over on her own, she was laying on the couch where I was standing folding clothes. All of a sudden, she rolled over, and right off the couch and onto the carpeted floor. She cried for a split second when I picked her up, then nothing. I figured she was ok, till I went to look her over, and OH MY GOD, I about had heart failure. My infant daughter was not breathing, and she was purple, and curled backward into a ball, and her arms and legs where all bent in awkward positions. Being a first time mom, I didn't know what was wrong. My first thought was that the fall had killed her. I started to panic, I started to shake her a little thinking maybe she would come out of it. I was hysterical, I tried to give her mouth to mouth, but nothing worked. I then called 911, and I gave them all the information, and hung up. Then my daughter started to flail violently, and after about 15 minutes from when it first happened, it stopped, other than being groggy, you would never had known anything had happened. By the time the ambulance got there, she was fine.
They did take her to the ER, just to have her checked out. Everything seemed to be ok. This happened a few more times, and each time I took her to her doctor, or the ER. But as with the first time, by the time I got there, she was fine. The doctors, didn't come right out and say it, but with some of the things they said, I took it as though they thought I was crazy.
Then the inevitable happened. She had a doctor appointment, to get her ears checked. When the doctor couldn't see her eardrum because of wax build up, her used this medical instrument, to try and remove some of the wax. When he did, she moved, and he poked the inside of her ear canal, and finally some one else witnessed what I had all those other times. Finally the doctor believed me. As it turned out, she had been having Grand Maw Seizures. So naturally there first suspicion, was that she was epileptic. They sent her to so many specialist, and ran so many test, that if she would have had to go to the doctor much more, they would have started to give her frequent flyer miles. (LOL) All the tests came back negative, she did not have epilepsy.
She would only have these episodes, when she would get physically hurt. Like if she would fall and scrape a knee, or bump her head, or anything like that. After all the tests coming back negative, the doctors came to the conclusion that they were temper tantrums.
She did this up until she was about six years old. Almost every day, and some times 4 and 5 times a day. She had her last seizure when she was in first grade, and has been seizure free every since. This is a mystery to me. But I am glad that she is over it no matter what caused it, because it is a very scary experience.
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