Description
Calm Your Child’s Tantrums: A Practical Parent’s Guide to Preventing Meltdowns, Responding Without Shame, and Teaching Emotional Regulation is a practical and compassionate guide designed to help parents understand, manage, and reduce challenging tantrums without resorting to shouting, shaming, or harsh punishment. Tantrums can leave even loving parents feeling embarrassed, frustrated, helpless, and exhausted. This book helps parents recognise that a tantrum is often a sign that a child is overwhelmed by emotions they have not yet learned to understand, communicate, or regulate. At the heart of the book is the practical CALMER approach, which teaches parents to Connect before correcting, Assess the trigger, Limit unsafe behaviour, Model emotional regulation, Empower children with emotional language, and Review and repair after difficult moments. Parents learn how to identify common triggers such as hunger, tiredness, disappointment, overstimulation, transitions, and sensory discomfort, while recognising the early warning signs that may appear before a full meltdown. The book also provides practical strategies for setting calm and consistent boundaries, teaching children to express feelings with words, helping parents regulate their own emotions, repairing relationships after difficult incidents, and creating prevention plans for recurring tantrums.
With practical exercises, ready-to-use phrases, a Seven-Day Storm Log, calming and safety scripts, and a Seven-Day Foundation Plan, this book goes beyond explaining tantrums—it gives parents tools they can begin using immediately.
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