Six Ways to Respond to Your Child’s Tantrum

Six Ways to Respond to Your Child’s Tantrum

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 the whole thing suddenly tumbled down. Within seconds, she was on the floor unleashing a wail that seemed to shake the windows. My first instinct was familiar to most parents: How do I make this stop? Later, I discovered: That was exactly the wrong q…