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Experience from my bilingual family set up (5 year-old child):
First of all, I don't think you should worry.
Second, I don't think you need to look for any pediatrician advice at this point.
Third: the problem may me more related to the parents than to the child. If both parents work full time, and pre-school is in English, the child will have to work ...
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Just one idea to add to the host of sensible advice above. With our own tantrum-prone 3.5-year-old, it is surprising how often (not always) it helps to set an egg timer for him, at the sound of which he is expected to come along on his own - be it to tooth-brushing, bathing or something else.
It may have something to do with feeling more in control and ...
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If your son is otherwise progressing well in his development (that "his play becomes more complicated" and "he wants to explain the rules" is an indication of that), I would not worry (and would certainly not start hectic manouevres to speed up his linguistic development).
If you don't feel qualified to judge his general development, don't hesitate to talk ...
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When an adult doesn't know a word in a foreign language, they will resort to complicated sentences that have lots of subordinate clauses (i.e. that thing I used to eat cereal with). That would be way out of the range of a kid in the 2 word sentence phase. So he's looking for the right pair of words to express himself.
I've read that vocab acquisition is ...
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Our son is 3½ now too, and this behaviour is all-too-familiar for us too- I have every sympathy.
It sounds like you're currently trying to sit-out the tantrums- I can totally understand why that is so emotional for you both. Plus, when it comes to bed-times, by sitting it out you're effectively giving in to his demand to stay up longer. I agree something ...
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As others have said, you're kinda between a rock and a hard place here. Timeouts are good, ignoring is great, and yes tantrums do eat a bit of your soul because it can be painful to see your child in such distress.
Have you tried looking for triggers? You mention electronic media; our soon-to-be 5-yr-old used to have regular 'time for bath' tantrums ...
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It definitely seems as though he is getting some sort of satisfaction from this, whether from the attention you give to his volume or just pure joy of doing the activity.
When my kids were younger, at that age, the time outs, etc didn't work either. What I found that does work is first, not to pay too much attention to the issue to where he knows its ...
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First of all, don't discourage him. That is the worst thing you can do.
If you tell him he's bad at something, that will create a very judgemental culture in your household. "You're bad at this so don't do it.", means later he may be afraid to try new things.
No one is good at anything when they first start. He may become a great singer in time.
Anyway ...
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