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 ...

If you live with young children, there's a good chance you've been on the receiving end of a child yelling, screaming, crying, throwing or hitting things. But how do parents know what is typical and ...

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 ...

We expect toddlers to have temper tantrums. A lack of oral-language skills, the inability to regulate emotions, and inexperience with socializing in group settings can all lead to outbursts in 2- and ...

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 ...

You may not even know someone named 'Jessica,' but by simply calling her name, you may calm your toddler's tantrum. But there are some shortcomings. The “Jessica” trick works by distracting toddlers ...

If you live with young children, there’s a good chance you’ve been on the receiving end of a child yelling, screaming, crying, throwing or hitting things. But how do parents know what is typical and ...