11 month old SCREAMING baby--- What to do?!?!

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Hello,

My wife and I have an 11-month-old boy. About 2 months ago he started
to scream occasionally, which we thought was kind of cute. It was a
happy scream, or at least not a bawling-his-head-off unhappy scream.
Well, since then it has gotten so much worse that it is driving us
crazy. If we are directly interacting with him, then he won't scream as
much, but if we leave him for a moment, still within visible range, he
screams and screams as if he is showing off his VERY POWERFUL voice. We
have tried saying "No" firmly, gently pinching his cheek, flicking his
nose, but all have no effect. Trying to get him into some Teletubbies
videos, but we don't want to deal with this problem by plonking him
down in front of the television. Although if it stopped the
screaming...

Does anyone have any suggestions for us? I am converned for my wife's
sanity who is caring for him all day.

Thanks,
Marcus

I kinda fell behind on this one and don't have the time to read what
everyone else has said or suggested, but I have friends with a little boy
that's 12.5 months old. He has a MAJOR screeching problem, and it too seems
to come out of nowhere.
IIRC, this started for him around 11ish months of age. It drives his
parents insane, and others as well!

First, don't encourage it. If he screams, don't give him much for a
reaction. He's definitely at the age now where he enjoys reaction from Mom
and Dad. If he falls down, and he's not actually hurt, he probably looks to
you to see if you saw it, and if he thinks you saw it, he might start crying
to get a running reaction from you. If he's touching something he
shouldn't, he might be watching you to see if you're watching, and if you
say no, there's a good chance he's going to still go ahead and touch
whatever it is that he shouldn't. If he screams, it's the same thing - to
get any type of reaction from you.
With my friend's DS, what I know they do is encourage something else and
ignore the screaming. Normally, they just let him scream his short, shrill
scream. When it does get too much for a person's eardrums to handle, that's
when it's the time that they toss his big beach ball at him and distract him
with something he likes - the beach ball, a toy car, whatever.
Rather than pinching him or flicking him, or anything like that, maybe
'teach' him something else. With my DD (who is just about 14 months) I had
her "shhh-ing" back at me by about 10 months. If she got too loud, I'd put
my finger to my mouth and do a shhh! It turned into kind of a fun game
thing - shhh! for nap or bed time, shhh! for the odd time she'd scream
(which wasn't often, so normally it slid) shhh! if we were trying to sneak
up on big brother and scare him or whatever.

He's 11 months old. Still far from being past a baby, so just let him. If
he's doing his screaming so much that you just can't handle it, and
redirecting him with a toy or activity doesn't help, just walk out of the
room he's in. He will grow out of it, as he will grow out of diapers, his
clothes, his afternoon nap, whatever. Just don't let him have that
satisfaction of a reaction from you when he does something like that!

"enigma" wrote in message
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you don't have a dog, do you?

I do, actually. Maybe it's a good thing I've never heard of it?

rolling is forcing a dog over on his back. basicly it's
proving to the dog that *you* are Alpha & s/he is subordinate.
some dog trainers swear by it, but i think it's not such a
good idea. there are certain dogs that will take it as a
challenge & try to get back at you.
i've had better luck using more cooperative techniques (&
neutering for the stubborn case my Malamute was).

Ah, ok. Never had the need I guess.

JennP.

The same as a beak-tweak

steve

Stephanie wrote:

What is a nose-bop?