Temper Tantrums at Home

Abstract

Very often temper tantrums are used by children either to gain their parents’ attention or to impose their wants and wishes upon them. Most children, of course, are not consciously aware that this is what they are doing; the position is simply that they have learnt that by having a temper tantrum they can get their parents to do exactly what they want them to. Once such a pattern of behaviour is established we need not concern ourselves as to how the tantrums began in the first place, but directly with breaking the cycle of that pattern of behaviour.