Toddlers certainly add excitement to our lives, don’t they? One minute they’re on top of the world singing and dancing across the living room. And the next, they’re a pile of tears on the kitchen floor. They can often seem like a ticking emotional time bomb. We’re never quite sure what will set them off….

She fell asleep before we could exchange our apologies. The sun was already setting on our long, hectic day and dinner had yet to be served. Hunger and fatigue, the common bewitching hour triggers, took hold of us all. And tantrums were had. Right there in our car, still far from home. I vacillated between…

It happened on Monday. Something I often counsel parents about and logically, I can see exactly how and why it happens. I just wasn’t prepared for it to happen to me. In broad daylight. With what felt like a million eyes all on me. I came face to face with a monster of a tantrum….

I think most of us know how a tantrum plays out… Child wants something, it’s not appropriate, we distract or say “not now”, child becomes increasingly more upset, our heart rate starts to quicken because we sense the imminent storm…then it happens. Our sweet child suddenly transforms into a screaming, crying, flailing mess. We’re left…