Posts tagged "3 year old tantrums"
For many exhausted parents, 🙋🏽 we look forward to when our children finally go to sleep. Their slumber is our gateway to a few hours of personal time (aka when we catch up with our spouse, watching brain-numbing reality television, or finally shower). So obviously bedtime tantrums are the absolute worst after a very long day. Here are some strategies to reduce bedtime tantrums.
One of the main techniques we love using to help little kids calm down during a temper tantrum is taking 3 to 5 deep breaths.
Deep breathing has shown to help with self-regulation, anxiety, stress, concentration and overall changing our emotional state. However, it can sometimes be tricky to teach deep breathing to little children.
Here are a few ideas we love:
Whining tends to peak between two to four years of age, which means as a toddler parent you are bound to hear it several times a day. Is there a solution for whining? Quite possibly and it doesn’t involve spending a fortune on noise-canceling headphones.
Often times when little kids have an emotional outburst, they are unable to express themselves verbally. We can ask them what happened and how we can make them feel better... and all we get back is more screaming and tears.
Here's how we get them to express themselves with Tantrum Fix:
If you never get any response to the universal after-school question “How Was Your Day?" and are itching to find a way to get any information out of them, read up :)
