Child and adolescent mental health experts have advised parents not to dismiss their children’s tantrums as mere acts of stubbornness or manipulation, warning that such behaviours could be signs of ...

This is what meltdowns really look like from childhood through young adulthood. Calm, compassionate support can turn ...

You’re shopping with your toddler in a busy department store. He or she has spied a toy that you don’t intend to buy. Suddenly you’re at the center of a gale-force temper tantrum. Everyone is looking ...

Your child has likely been looking forward to Christmas for months. "There are a lot of fantasies surrounding Christmas and ...

Q: My 5-year-old continues to throw tantrums when he doesn’t get his way. His father and I are divorced. I have primary custody. He is with his dad every other weekend, basically. My ex has very poor ...

“But, that is so unfair! I want to sleep over at Tali’s house tonight. You never let me go anywhere,” twelve-year-old Leora sobbed to her mother at dinnertime. Leora’s mother continued ladling out the ...

Nick Reiner threw “terrifying” tantrums as a child that escalated when he struggled with drug abuse before he was charged with murdering his mother and his Hollywood icon father, Rob Reiner, according ...

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 ...

Have you even been in a room in which a young man keeps answering text after text? Then he looks up and says, “She won’t leave me alone.” In the world of two sides to every story, she might be trying ...

There is nothing so disconcerting as finding yourself the parent of a formerly sweet toddler who has suddenly become a screaming and kicking little stranger. Tantrums are a normal part of children's ...