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Temper Tantrums
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Temper tantrums are a way for your child to express feelings of anger or frustration. While they are a normal part of the development of toddlers, they should be occurring less frequently after his second birthday. They usually increase when children are hungry, tired or ill and you should try to help them cope with these situations.
You should try to ignore attention-seeking or demanding tantrums and avoid situations that you know will lead to a tantrum (including changes in their regular daily schedule). If you can see that your child is getting overly frustrated and that a tantrum is coming, you can try to distract him and shift his attention to something else.
Help your child to realize that temper tantrums don't work are not going to help them get out of doing things that they need to do. For tantrums that are disruptive, you should give your child a time out. Remember to praise your child when he controls his temper and cooperates with what you want him to do and set a good example for your child by remaining calm and not getting fired-up or out of control.
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Discipline Internet Resources:
- Discipline and Your Child: AAP parent's guide to discipline, explaining the difference between discipline and punishment, how to encourage good behavior, tips to avoid trouble, and strategies that work, including using natural consequences, logical consequences, withholding privileges and time-out. Plus six tips to make discipline more effective and information about why spanking is not the best choice.
- Disciplining Your Child: Information from kidshealth.org about disciplining your children at different stages of their life and a word about spanking.
- Guidance for Effective Discipline: American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement on discipline using a developmental approach, plus strategies for effective discipline and punishment.
- Effective Discipline for Young Children: Learn to understand children's behavior better, how to prevent misbehavior, how to deal with misbehavior, that discipline helps children learn how to behave, that there are many acceptable ways to discipline children.
- Discipline Facts: 'Helping a child to behave in an acceptable manner is a necessary part of raising the child well. Discipline varies at different ages. There is no one right way to raise children, but child and adolescent psychiatrists offer the following general guidelines...'
- BabyCenter Discipline Articles: Articles to help you discipline your baby and toddler.
- Behavior Problems and Solutions: Articles to help you discipline your preschool and school age children, including discipline strategies, and dealing with behavior problems at home, school, and at play.
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