Even toddlers like to feel some measure of control over their life, and they struggle when told what to do. Here are some healthy ways that parents can react.
A year or so ago, I noticed a toddler having a meltdown near the library and his father sitting down next to him and saying,"I understand that you are upset right now..." I walked away before hearing the rest, but I'm sure I could have predicted exactly the way that sentence was going to end.magazines could have predicted this. The fact that my daughter was then just an infant and too young to have tantrums probably caused me to chuckle at this well-meaning dad.
Scientists at the University of Connecticut developed a onesie for toddlers to wear with a high-quality microphone attached to it. They then analyzed the audio of over a hundred tantrums to better understand their emotional content. Traditionally, it was believed that tantrums begin in anger and end in sadness. This study, however, found that both the anger and sadness are intertwined.
My daughter has now learned to very cutely say"Ammaaa, I want the toy" when I ask her to stop crying and ask me nicely for something. She now believes that she can get anything she wants if she asks"nicey," but that's a story for another day! There's also the"I don't want to stop doing this fun activity" tantrum, and, as mentioned, this is the one that we encounter most at our home. Toddlers, despite being tiny creatures that entered this world only a few years ago, like to feel that they have control over their lives. Almost nothing pushes their buttons more than having to stop playing in the water, or at the park, just because their parents told them they would have to.
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