My daughter skipped the terrible twos, and I thought I was safe from tantrums. Then, when she was 3, she threw her shoe at another kid at a fair because she was angry at me. Another mom saw my ...

Public tantrums are humiliating and exhausting for parents but most importantly, they are overwhelming for the child. Tantrums are emotional overload where your child is not “being dramatic on purpose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I'm parenting coach Kristin Gallant with some tips for dealing with toddler temper tantrums. (Photo Illustration: Yahoo News, ...

We expect toddlers to throw tantrums. Grown adults? Not so much. But every now and then, someone over the age of 25 decides to go full meltdown mode in a public setting, minor inconvenience, complete ...

Out of all the kids I have, my fourth child, the little girl peanut, is the two-est two-year-old I’ve ever had. She smacks her little brother in the face sometimes if he gets too close and she’s not ...

Meltdowns, refusing to share, hitting other kids. Every child has bad behavior sometimes. At home, it's easier to deal with. But what about in... Your kid is having a tantrum in public. Now what?

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 ...

I looked at her for a few seconds. The cashiers were also looking at her. So I said, “Hi little girl, where’s your mother?”, then stepped over her to look at the rubber duckies. Maybe because I’m on ...

"She's perfect," my pediatrician said the day she met my daughter. And she was. She was an easygoing baby who'd leapfrogged the dreaded terrible twos. I thought we were past tantrums and meltdowns.