Quotes About Tantrums

I constantly ask why one of my kids has the tantrums that he does, and it's not because he sees videos of me acting like that onstage but because we're bound by blood.

kids will throw tantrums only as long as they work. Kids never seem to scream and pound the floor when they're alone in their room, but the show goes on when they have a captive audience.

Handling temper tantrums requires parents with soft voices who don't even try to reason with their misbehaving child.

Tired is the catchall for everything when you're a parent of a small child. When your child throws a tantrum, when your child refuses to kiss his grandmother, when your child doesn't say thank you, when your child does anything remotely shitty, you can always just say: He's tired or She didn't get enough sleep last night and you're off the hook.

Cuando los niños están alterados o tienen una pataleta, es cuando más nos necesitan. Hemos de hacerles ver que estamos a su lado y que seguiremos apoyándolos aun en el peor de los berrinches. Así creamos confianza y una sensación de seguridad general.

For him, petulance was a pastime.

Sophie's experience told her that tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.

I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope...

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

Because they are more, much of the advice that works for raising other children is ineffective with spirited kids. To ignore your child's tantrums is ridiculous. He can rage for an hour because you opened the door when he was expecting to do it himself.

Si los padres comienzan en la infancia, frustrando las primeras exigencias gritadas, el niño nunca desarrollará el hábito. En nuestra casa los berrinches eran totalmente desconocidos porque desde la primera vez que se intentaban hacíamos que fuera contraproducente.

As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of your own difference, assumptions of your own superiority. And you acted out these beliefs on the stage of the world, so that the entire planet was rocked by the repercussions of your tantrums, not least my family, now facing war thousands of miles away.