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 ...

Kicking, screaming, dramatically collapsing onto the floor - what parent or caregiver hasn't experienced or witnessed a toddler tantrum first-hand? There's no shortage of advice on how to handle them, ...

Tantrums are never pleasant to be around. I was in a store paying for some items, and all of a sudden, a little girl not more than five years old began screaming at the top of her lungs and flailing ...

A year or so ago, I noticed a toddler having a meltdown near the library and his father sitting down next to him and saying, "I understand that you are upset right now..." I walked away before hearing ...

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