Maddizon Richardson
Mr. Kennington
ENGL 053: Eleventh-Grade English, Part 2 (Online)
16 November 2014
Disciplining Toddlers To start with, I’d like to tell you about what to do when your child has a temper tantrum. “Every parent has experienced the shock of that moment when their sweet baby turns into a tantruming toddler: kicking, shrieking, throwing herself down on the ground” (Frost 241). There are three types of tantrums: the emotional meltdown, the situation tantrum, and the mock tantrum. Knowing which kind of tantrum your child is having will help you resolve the issue more quickly. Second, what is an emotional tantrum? “Emotional meltdowns are raw expressions of upset, fear, anxiety, hurt, sadness, or grief...This tantrum could be triggered by the loss of a pet, being upset because her brother took her toy, going to preschool for two weeks and still feeling the…show more content… “Mock tantrums are acting-out manipulations that are calculated to embarrass and humiliate you into giving in to whatever it is your child wants. This can be anything from having another cookie to buying something in a shop to staying longer at the playdate…Mock tantrums develop when you give in to what your child is demanding in a situation tantrum and he learns that he can get his way by pitching a fit…Giving in to mock tantrums is dangerous because a child learns very quickly that if she carries on and you relent, that’s what she needs to do to get what she wants next time…Sometimes different types of tantrums overlap. You can be in a store and know you’ve pushed the limit of your two-year-old’s ability to be patient, so she’s having a situation tantrum. Then suddenly she sees something she wants and goes into a mock tantrum to get it. You’ve got to understand the situation—‘She’s bored with following me around, so we’ve got to go do something fun for her’—while not giving in by buying the thing she’s pitching a mock fit over” (Frost
