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Parenting coach shares key advice on how to avoid a toddler meltdown

Parenting coach shares key advice on how to avoid a toddler meltdown

This is a game changer. We’ve all been there: the ‘five more minutes until home time’ sentence is met with ‘no,’ tears, or a full-fledged tantrum. If we’re really being honest with ourselves, we know as soon as we say it that it’s unlikely it will be received happily or obediently when it comes to […]

3 years ago

How an ‘electronics fast’ could curb your child’s aggression

How an ‘electronics fast’ could curb your child’s aggression

A child psychiatrist has shared her prescription for an electronics intervention designed to help a child who is prone to rages and angry outbursts to sleep better, focus and beat meltdowns.  Writing in Psychology Today, award-winning integrative child psychiatrist Victoria L. Dunckley, MD warned that chronically irritable children “are often in a state of abnormally high arousal and […]

11 years ago