Temper tantrums can be a challenging aspect of parenting. Witnessing a child in the midst of a meltdown can evoke a range of emotions from frustration to helplessness. However, tantrums are a normal ...

Some children have temper tantrums in response to unmet needs or desires. Tantrums are especially common in young children who cannot verbalize their needs in words or control their emotions when they ...

When your kid's in the middle of a tantrum, it can be tough to keep from having an outburst of your own. "Meltdowns are terrible, nasty things, but they're a fact of childhood," says Ray Levy, PhD, a ...

My daughter Carys was two when she discovered the devastating injustice of gravity. She’d been carefully stacking wooden blocks into a tower. It was higher than any structure she’d built before, but ...

It’s safe to say that all children throw temper tantrums, at least every once in a while. That’s normal. However, the degree of temper tantrums varies. Some children cry incessantly. Some kick their ...

“But, that is so unfair! I want to sleep over at Tali’s house tonight. You never let me go anywhere,” twelve-year-old Leora sobbed to her mother at dinnertime. Leora’s mother continued ladling out the ...