You're stuck!

I hate the terrible 2's… but oh wait, you're almost 3 1/2 now…

Ever since you were a year and a half it's been hard controlling your tantrums. At first daddy and I tried the spanking method, but that just made you hit us back so we stopped that for a while. Then we tried putting you in time out, but that didn't work- you would not stay in time out. Then your Vancouver grandmother told us about the "stuck" method that she saw on a Korean reality show that is very similar to the American Supernanny show. She said that the "teacher" made the parent hold the child between their legs while they are throwing a tantrum or about to until they calmed down. She said that this clutch made it impossible for the child to get out. She said while the child is throwing their tantrum the parent was to talk, in a stern voice, why they were there. Sometimes this would last a couple of hours depending on the child, but in the end it would work. We've been trying this method for a month now and I'm liking it. I can't do it in public for obvious reasons, but you seem to stop your screaming/crying after about 10 minutes. Daddy usually doesn't have the patience for it and I don't know if he knows how to do the clutch perfectly (you seem to escape when he does it), but I like it.