Do people still stamp their feet in anger?

DGS2 used to stamp a single foot, but more from frustration than anger.

Stampers are in good company.
Elephants, deer, zebras, horses, rhinos, chimpanzees, skunks, also do it.

Oh and rabbits.

I'm sure I had a hamster (or gerbil) who used to stamp one foot, too.

Yes maybe when I was five, then fling myself head first into the sofa- like a right drama queen. kind of out-grown that now thank goodness or we would have no sofa left 😂

I didn't do it when I was little, apart from when mum said we couldnt watch The Banana Splits once.
I flung myself on the sofa.

I did once work with someone who would stamp her feet if things weren't going her way. It was like dealing with a toddler!

I'm going to try it! Sounds interesting.

I own up to stamping my feet when our AC were younger and at home.

They veered towards being astounded the first time round, to finding it hilarious on subsequent occasions which defused the situation that had made me so cross. (This was usually arguments between the boys, or their baby sister winding them up)

Now they are parents, they tell their children, especially if they play up whilst they are out that they (AC) will stamp their feet like Grandma used to do!

I actually found it rather therapeutic, and as a tool for handling both children and grandchildren rather effective as a threat.

I think this was more to do with them thinking I was going to embarrass them…

I turn into a bratish toddler when roused and stomp about like Rumpelstiltskin. Mr ILD just rolls his eyes and let's me get on with it.
I'm not proud of this behaviour but......whatever! 😚

I witnessed a little girl aged about 6 (going on her missing teeth) stamping her foot at lunch in a cafe today. She wanted something and was told no, and then decided to have a tantrum. As a retired Headteacher I was a little surprised as it’s a behaviour associated with much younger children.

I have been a foot stamper and continue to be, but have less reason to do so these days. Sometimes when there is no other option and I have had to accept what is happening, it IS therapeutic. I am reminded of dogs...they shake themselves after a dramatic encounter or sometimes after a lot of love...they need to return their bodies to a state of emotional neutrality and it helps to let it out physically instead of keeping it hidden in our cells somewhere. Try it and see...

Yes, I do, but only in mock anger.

It's a bit like a yawn.
No control over it - it just happens. I think mine was because I felt nobody was listening to me.

I didn't do it as a child, or my mum would have given me what for!

My Yorkie did. Right little madam she was.

I once saw a friend stamp twice while walking. She was genuinely annoyed with herself for something she'd just realised she got wrong, but laughed too.

When I was young my dad told me I was called Paddy for stamping my feet
I can't remember it's so long ago.but ihaven't heard anything about this happening nowadays

I think young people slam doors nowadays or write something offensive online!😳

I saw a middle-aged woman do it on a railway station in North China in the 1960s. In fact she did it to me. Back then I spoke reasonable Mandarin, and when the train stopped at a station with an announcement that there would be a ten minute wait, I got off the train in order to walk around and stretch my legs. A uniformed woman came up and spoke to me in a rather officious tone. Clearly it was a highly locally accented version of Mandarin but I could not understand it at all. I replied in Mandarin and she could understand me perfectly but it was a one-way communication street. A small crowd gathered, watching and listening. They could clearly understand us both and they began to laugh. The woman was losing face, a really bad thing in the culture. She tried again, I repeated that I still could not understand her. She then stamped her foot heavily a few times and then marched off fuming. Now and then I wonder what she wanted!

Sheep stamp their hooves when annoyed

I didn't know that.
Its quite interesting how some animal traits resurface in humans.

I wondet if its to do with trying to sound big and strong against an opponent?
Chimps do a lot of that posturing.

A bit like a "my dad's bigger thsn yours".

I'm just reminded now about bulls, when they're about to charge - that pawing of the ground.
Is it even cslled pawing when yheu don't have paws?

My husband's ex-wife does. It makes me chuckle quietly to myself!

Difficult to stamp feet with arthritis! Only ever seen a toddler do that when having a tantrum.

AuntieE

Re-reading Agatha Christie, I cannot help noticing some of the changes that have occurred in our daily lives, since she wrote her first books.

One small detail: a nicely brought up young girl actually stamps her foot upon being annoyed by something said to her.

This made me wonder, if anyone actually does this any more?

To the best of my knowledge and belief I have never seen anyone do so (apart perhaps from two year olds in tantrums).

I have certainly never dared do it, after being reproved at the age of four or five by my mother, who said, "Don't stamp your foot at me, young woman!" in a tone of voice that clearly warned me that the next time I did so, I would be sent to bed without my dinner!

So, the question is, does anyone actually do this now, or would it be totally unacceptable adult behaviour?

I have a cousin with the worst spoiled brat of a daughter imaginable who frequently had stampy foot histrionic fits when she didn’t get her own way