Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Temper Tantrum Triggers Don't Really Exist

By Leanna Rae Scott


Throughout all of the forty-plus years I've been parenting, the most consistent tantrum advice from child rearing experts has been for parents to ignore every tantrum. The theory behind this technique of ignoring tantrums, to my understanding, is that ignoring tantrums prevents their validation. The ignore-the-tantrum parent avoids rewarding a child for tantrums and avoids reinforcing any negative behavior with any attention.

According to such a don't-reinforce-negative-behavior theory, in this scenario the underlying beliefs are that the child is throwing the temper tantrum for the purpose of garnering undeserved attention (which amounts to negative behavior), and if the parents avoid reinforcing such negative behavior, it should actually go away, stop, and cease to happen. In spite of this theory behind ignoring-tantrums techniques, throughout history of parenting advice, most parenting advice givers who've recommended using the techniques have not claimed that it stops tantrums in progress or prevents them.

Only two decades ago, parenting advisors still weren't putting the word prevention along with the word tantrum in the same sentence. Their advice was given really only to help parents know how to best manage and deal with temper tantrums, the same as it primarily is today. However, today's parenting advisers currently teach parents how to prevent some temper tantrums by handling children's tantrum triggers, such as hunger, frustration, and tiredness. In other words, these expert parenting advisers teach parents to prevent the hunger, frustration, and tiredness in their children. They really don't teach parents to prevent temper tantrums in spite of normal living, which can include tiredness, frustration, and hunger.

My method for temper tantrum elimination and prevention is hugely different from various other methods. I enlighten parents as to how to respond to their children and infants in a way that nullifies the need to be vigilant and to watch for tantrum triggers (which are really anger triggers). This occurs because the typical infant and childhood frustrations no longer trigger temper tantrums. In spite of this theory being behind the ignoring-tantrums technique, through the modern history of parenting advice giving, most experts who have recommended using this technique haven't made claims that it prevents tantrums or stops them in progress.

I show parents how to one hundred percent eliminate tantrums from their child's behaviors so that there are no more temper tantrums in progress to have to manage, handle, stop, or deal with. I also show parents how to consistently react to a newborn infant in such a way that the child never develops a tantrum-throwing or escalated anger pattern. I help parents gain these skills with clarity and with many fun examples in hopes they will be able to learn them easily and quickly.




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