These statements can lead to issues down the road, like anxiety and emotional regulation problems.

My sister called me from a parking lot once, whispering, because her four-year-old had dissolved into a full meltdown over the wrong color cup, and she didn’t want him to hear her losing her mind too.

My daughter “Melody” is in the midst of the terrible twos. Five or more meltdowns per day over normal frustrations/limits are ...

Julie Fogliano and Marla Frazee’s “Because of a Shoe” and Beatrice Alemagna’s “Her Muddy Majesty of Muck” address children’s anger with compassion.

The more children are respected and welcomed into society, the more they will become functioning members of it.