All of my first five children threw temper tantrums. When my fifth baby turned fourteen months old, I found out what I needed to in order to change my parenting style and prevent any more temper tantrums from him. He was forever free of temper tantrums within a week or so of my implementing the changes. After this I used my newly found techniques with each additional baby I had, all eight of them from birth on, effectively preventing tantrums. Not one of them ever had a temper tantrum, not even the two that had ADHD, or the one of them that had very strong Oppositional Defiant Disorder. This daughter, as a young adult, stated, "I was an extremely defiant child, yet, through all the years my mother and I struggled over who was going to be in charge, I simply loved how she responded to my anger."
When I help other parents use my concepts to totally eliminate and totally prevent temper tantrums in their own children, I begin by teaching them the difference between Type-One and Type-Two tantrums. It's quite important to know what kind of tantrums one is trying to eliminate, because Type-Two temper tantrums need additional parenting techniques besides those needed in general for Type-One and Type-Two.
A Type-One temper tantrum is really just a true expression of anger that has escalated to a point of rage, perhaps to the extreme, and possibly to the maximum. This is out-of-control anger (or almost so). This kind of tantrum happens when something comes along to naturally make the child angry.
Type-Two tantrums are not only expressions of anger (that might be exaggerated, unexaggerated, genuine, or even fake) but also conscious and deliberate attempts to manipulate or intimidate. These kinds of tantrums occur when children aren't given what they want.
Temper tantrum advice from the "experts" has traditionally included some aspect of ignoring the child's tantrums. This, I eventually found out, was faulty advice-but I steadfastly followed it in the beginning with my first five children. I eventually learned, after I eliminated the temper tantrums with my fifth baby, that ignoring tantrums was a portion of what caused them. In fact, it's my belief that ignoring temper tantrums pretty much guarantees they'll keep occurring. There are many other factors involved in total prevention and total elimination of tantrums from children's repertoires of behaviors, most certainly. I talk about these other factors as I present my methods, which I call, "Infant Anger Management." It all begins, however, with parents ending their "ignore-the-tantrum" behaviors.
When I help other parents use my concepts to totally eliminate and totally prevent temper tantrums in their own children, I begin by teaching them the difference between Type-One and Type-Two tantrums. It's quite important to know what kind of tantrums one is trying to eliminate, because Type-Two temper tantrums need additional parenting techniques besides those needed in general for Type-One and Type-Two.
A Type-One temper tantrum is really just a true expression of anger that has escalated to a point of rage, perhaps to the extreme, and possibly to the maximum. This is out-of-control anger (or almost so). This kind of tantrum happens when something comes along to naturally make the child angry.
Type-Two tantrums are not only expressions of anger (that might be exaggerated, unexaggerated, genuine, or even fake) but also conscious and deliberate attempts to manipulate or intimidate. These kinds of tantrums occur when children aren't given what they want.
Temper tantrum advice from the "experts" has traditionally included some aspect of ignoring the child's tantrums. This, I eventually found out, was faulty advice-but I steadfastly followed it in the beginning with my first five children. I eventually learned, after I eliminated the temper tantrums with my fifth baby, that ignoring tantrums was a portion of what caused them. In fact, it's my belief that ignoring temper tantrums pretty much guarantees they'll keep occurring. There are many other factors involved in total prevention and total elimination of tantrums from children's repertoires of behaviors, most certainly. I talk about these other factors as I present my methods, which I call, "Infant Anger Management." It all begins, however, with parents ending their "ignore-the-tantrum" behaviors.
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