Dr. Gene Beresin answers the question: 'How Should Parents Interpret Tantrums?' — -- Question: A 6-year-old throws temper tantrums each night at bedtime (8 p.m.). Her parents, who regularly get ...

There's nothing more unpleasant than witnessing a toddler's temper tantrum, except, maybe being the parent desperately trying to calm their child. But what's actually happening in that little one's ...

A temper tantrum is the emotional equivalent of a summer storm – sudden and sometimes fierce. One minute you and your toddler are in a restaurant enjoying your dinner, the next minute they're ...

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 ...

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