teaching a child to cry quietly?

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  • January 13, 2011 at 1:09 am
    Tukata
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    I’d love some advice from you moms out there!  My dd5 is a screamer!  She cries very loudly, screams, etc.  My other two dc are much more mild.  I keep waiting for her to grow out of this and have tried everything I can think of to help her, but we aren’t making much progress.  I just read a little blurb about Susanna Wesley and how she trained her 19 children to cry quietly.  I would think in a group of 19 at least one of them had to have a personality like my dd.  But the book didn’t say how she did it!  Does anyone have any experience training children to cry quietly when crying is really warrented?  I’d love some advice! 

    Thanks!
    Erin

    January 13, 2011 at 1:26 am
    coralloyd
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    I have taught my children how to calm themselves down by taking a deep breath. When they are crying, I calmly look at them and say “Take a deep breath. In through the nose out through the mouth.” Then I take a deep breath myself and show them. Now all I have to do is say “Calm down, and take a deep breath.” It really works. It works for myself also ;).

    January 13, 2011 at 12:00 pm
    thehauserfamily
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    Similar here.  My middle son is mild mannered, but has the loudest most annoying cry I have ever heard.  Now I just have to say stop crying and he does.  On the rare occasion that it is more severe (like if bleeding is involved) I might have to hold him and ask him to stop, then he is fine and I can put him down.

    I didn’t tell him to take a deep breath, but that is a great idea!  I jsut sat in front of him and quietly and patiently taked with him and asked him to stop.  Now that is all I have to do.  I will be honest in that it took awhile, but well worth it.

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