Siegel, M.D., a neuropsychiatrist, and Dr. (How would you feel if you wanted a spoon, but couldn’t reach the silverware drawer, and everyone thought you were saying “stool”?) As Dr. Why is that? For one thing, young children lack the physical, motor and language skills to get what they want, which can understandably lead to frustration. They generally begin to occur when children are between 12 and 15 months old, peak between 18 and 36 months, and continue until around age 4, according to the National Association of School Psychologists. Michael Potegal, Ph.D., a psychologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota who researches tantrums. Roughly 85 percent of 2- and 3-year-olds have tantrums, said Dr. Understand that tantrums are normal toddler behavior. One overall takeaway is that tantrums, while unpleasant, are a normal part of child development - which means that learning to manage them (when you can’t prevent them) is an essential component of any parent’s skill set.
But, with a little thoughtful preparation, you can learn to head off many tantrums before they start, and to react as calmly and constructively as possible when your kiddo does melt down.įor this guide, I consulted four child psychologists, along with several psychologist-approved guides to both general discipline and tantrum management. Tantrums can transform parents too, causing us to say and do things we will later regret, like yelling - or, worse, caving in to our children’s demands. Out of nowhere, your mostly polite, mostly well-behaved toddler turns into a monster, stomping and screaming if you don’t meet his demands. Given how destabilizing tantrums can be, this intensity of parental concern makes sense. Type “how to tame tantrums” into a search engine, and you get hundreds of thousands of results.
Tantrums inspire anxiety in many parents.
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