When your kid is in the middle of a tantrum, logic and lectures don't work. I've studied over 200 kids and worked with hundreds of families, and one thing is clear: Tantrums aren't about defiance.

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 ...

Proactive, real-time digital augmentation of behavior therapy shows promise for anticipating and deflecting children’s severe temper tantrums, a randomized clinical pilot study found. In the Pistachio ...

Tantrums and meltdowns are common challenging and emotional behaviors in children, especially during early childhood. These ...

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 ...

Tantrums are part of growing up. How these outbursts of anger or frustration are managed, however, can impact children's emotional development. An international team of researchers has investigated ...

Few words strike as much fear into parents’ hearts as the term ‘tantrum’. Just hearing it conjures images of desperate mums and dads, pleading with, or trying to discipline, a small child who has ...

Young children hit, kick, and scream bloody murder, when they do not get something they badly want. When they have a tantrum, they are expressing their anger in a physical way. They do not have the ...