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 ...

When your kid is in the middle of a tantrum, logic and lectures don't work. I've studied over 200 kids and worked with hundreds of families, and one thing is clear: Tantrums aren't about defiance.

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 ...