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Cultivating Resilience: A Pediatric Psychologist's Guide to Toddler Tantrums

Expert strategies for managing toddler tantrums through a developmental lens, support emotional regulation and cultivating long-term resilience.

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Navigating Big Emotions

Toddler tantrums are a common aspect of early development. They can be associated with a child's growing independence and their emerging ability to express complex emotions.

Supportive Strategies

Guiding a toddler through intense moments may support their emotional resilience over time.

  • Staying calm can provide a steady presence for the child.
  • Offering comfort when they are ready may help them feel secure.
  • Acknowledging their feelings can be an effective way to help them process their experiences.

The evidence base for this topic

6 peer-reviewed sources, each verified against its PubMed record and labelled by study type. These are the literature this topic rests on rather than a citation for every individual sentence — see how we source.

  1. The Efficacy of Parent Management Training With or Without Involving the Child in the Treatment Among Children with Clinical Levels of Disruptive Behavior: A Meta-analysis

    Child psychiatry and human development · 2024 · Meta-Analysis · PMID 35790649

  2. Transported Versus Homegrown Parenting Interventions for Reducing Disruptive Child Behavior: A Multilevel Meta-Regression Study

    Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2016 · Meta-Analysis · PMID 27343888

  3. Psychoeducational and Skill-building Interventions for Emotion Dysregulation

    Child and adolescent psychiatric clinics of North America · 2021 · Review · PMID 34053689

  4. Parental Discipline Techniques and Changes in Observed Temper Tantrum Severity in Toddlers

    Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023 · Research article · PMID 36547795

  5. Temper Tantrums in Toddlers and Preschoolers: Longitudinal Associations with Adjustment Problems

    Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP · 2022 · Research article · PMID 35316228

  6. Assessment of Temper Tantrums Behaviour Among Preschool Children in Jordan

    Journal of pediatric nursing · 2021 · Research article · PMID 33640228