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 ...

When your kid is in the middle of a tantrum, logic and lectures don't work. I've studied over 200 kids and worked with hundreds of families, and one thing is clear: Tantrums aren't about defiance.

The Mayo Clinic has developed a smartwatch system that can alert parents to an incoming temper tantrum so they can stop these screamfests in their tracks. The implications are endless — calmer kids, ...

Temper tantrums can be a challenging aspect of parenting. Witnessing a child in the midst of a meltdown can evoke a range of emotions from frustration to helplessness. However, tantrums are a normal ...

Proactive, real-time digital augmentation of behavior therapy shows promise for anticipating and deflecting children’s severe temper tantrums, a randomized clinical pilot study found. In the Pistachio ...

Kids wearing the smartwatch had tantrums that lasted about 10 minutes, compared to 22 minutes for those without the monitoring, researchers found. Overall, the odds of a tantrum lasting 15 minutes or ...

Hi, it’s Michelle in Washington, DC. Since becoming a grandmother, I’ve been amazed at how new parents track everything from dirty diapers to sleep schedules. Now there’s evidence that the approach ...

After my toddler's epic 20-minute tantrum, I realized that it wasn't just about him. Most tantrums boil down to one thing: control. So I relinquished some of my control and now we have fewer tantrums ...