Calm, realistic help with toddler tantrums and big emotions: what to say during a meltdown, tantrums in public, positive discipline scripts, calm down corners and screen time battles.
When car seat tantrums starts to feel like too much, I remember the heat of that Tuesday afternoon like it was yesterday. My toddler was arched in a rigid, impossible ‘U’ shape, her heels digging into the upholstery of the back seat while her lungs produced a sound I didn’t know a human body could…
I remember a Tuesday about four months ago. It was 5:14 PM. The lighting in my kitchen was that weird, dusty orange of late afternoon—the kind of light that usually feels cozy, but that day, it felt like it was mocking me. I was standing over a pot of pasta that had just boiled over,…
I remember the first time it happened to me like it was yesterday. We were in the middle of a brightly lit grocery store aisle. One second, we were picking out bananas; the next, my two-year-old was a puddle of flailing limbs and high-pitched shrieks on the cold linoleum. I felt that familiar, hot prickle…
When do screens make toddler tantrums worse starts to feel like too much, I remember the first time I realized the screen was no longer my ‘helper.’ It was a Tuesday afternoon, the kind where the rain is gray against the window and you’ve been solo-parenting for what feels like forty days. I just needed…
When everything tips over and your three-year-old’s tantrum hits, it can feel like you’re failing. Let’s explore why it happens and how to make it through with a little more grace.
Explore the daily struggles of screen time battles and the one simple change that made a difference in our home.
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