Your head a'splode

With the good, comes the bad, I guess. Ryanne is severely into the temper tantrum phase. Her big thing is bashing her head into the floor (or fridge or wall or anything hard, really). She will start screaming and carefully put herself down and then THWAP her head into the floor. It certainly makes the crying more genuine. It gets her good and angry. It's hard to know whether to feel sorry for her being in pain or laugh that she thinks that's an effective way to get what she wants. We don't give in, and she gives up quickly. It's really hard to watch her do it to herself, especially when she slips and really smacks her head. Then, it's all I can do not to cuddle her. I wish there was a way to talk her out of it. We just encourage her to use words to ask for what she wants and if she's angry about being disciplined, we try to ignore her. She certainly doesn't make it easy on us, though.