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 ...

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 ...

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“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 ...

The Realization of Growing Independence of a 5-Year-Old At age 5, the child evolves towards independence and begins to carry out simple functions on his/her own. Children acquire awareness regarding ...

Discover seven effective, parent-approved strategies to navigate childhood tantrums without resorting to screens. These methods focus on validating feelings, offering choices, creating calm spaces, ...

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 ...