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Episode 145: Temper Tantrums

Parenting Great Kids with Dr. Meg Meeker

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How to Stay Calm When Your Child's Having a Temper Tantrum

The more out of control your child becomes, the more in control you need to become. embrace tem in a bear hug when they're calm enough to pick up. Before it happens, think about how you want to respond. When this tantrum starts, what do you want to do? HowDo you want to feel? What do you wantTo say? How are you going to approach your child? If you don't have a plan ahead, you're going to default to your knee jerk reaction of screaming or telling the child to stop. Bad, bad road to go down and escalate.

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