Temper Tantrum Triggers Are A Myth

Publié par Unknown on samedi 29 mars 2014

By Leanna Rae Scott


During the forty years I've been parenting, the most consistent advice from tantrum experts has been for parents to ignore their children's tantrums. The theory behind such techniques of ignoring temper tantrums, in my understanding, has been that ignoring them prevents the validation of them. The ignoring-the-tantrums parent avoids rewarding children for the tantrums and avoids positively reinforcing the negative behavior by giving any kind of attention.

According to such don't-reinforce-negative-behavior thinking, in such situations the underlying assumption is that a child is throwing the tantrum so as to get undeserved attention (which amounts to negative behavior), and if the parent avoids reinforcing such negative behavior, it should cease to occur, go away, and stop. Despite this theory behind ignoring tantrums, throughout the modern history of parenting advice, most experts who have recommended using this technique haven't purported that it prevents tantrums or stops them in progress.

Just a few short decades ago, experts still weren't putting the word prevention in the same sentence along with the word tantrum. Their advice was given only to teach parents the best ways to deal with and manage the tantrums, much the same as is the case today. However, current parenting experts now inform parents on how to prevent a portion of the temper tantrums by handling the child's tantrum triggers, such as tiredness, frustration, and hunger. Or in other words, these parenting advisers teach parents to prevent the tiredness, frustration, and hunger in their children. They don't actually teach parents how to prevent tantrums in their children's normal living, which occasionally includes hunger, frustration, and tiredness.

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 teach parents to totally, 100% eliminate temper tantrums from their children's behavioral repertoire so there are no longer any tantrums in progress to have to stop, handle, manage, or deal with. I also teach parents to consistently respond to their newborn infants in ways that the babies never develop a tantrum-throwing pattern or even of escalating when angry. I teach parents these abilities with clarity and with many examples in hopes that they will learn them quickly and easily.




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