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tirade

Prosody rare a speech or passage dealing with a single theme

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The questionnaire asked about the frequency, quality and severity of many temper tantrum behaviours and anger management skills over the past month.

When kids' temper tantrums are actually signs of mental health problems

They will work from an in-role position of a townsperson, meeting a tantrum throwing giant.

Creating and responding to text isn't a drama!

If your child throws a tantrum because she does not want to eat vegetables, ignore her.

When kids go huff and puff to blow your brains away

This tantrum study "adds a new dimension of complexity to our understanding of mother-infant communication and mother-infant conflict in primates," says Dario Maestripieri of the University of Chicago.

Public tantrums defeat monkey mothers, too: bystanders make macaques more likely to give in to baby

In other words, "don't try to teach someone who is in the middle of a tantrum." Non-compliant behaviors hinder skill acquisition, as well as the successful performance of learned skills.

Richter-scale tantrums: new hope for exhausted parents

The temper tantrum in a public place--something all parents have learned to fear and loathe.

What Angry Kids Need

For example, many parents experience stress when their children engage in tantrums. Unlike parents of non-disabled children, parents of children with ASD usually cannot determine the reason for the tantrum because of their child's deficits in communication.

Functional communication training in the natural environment: a pilot investigation with a young child with autism spectrum disorder

By the way, she never had another tantrum and I had a great helper!

Just rewards

DUMP TRUCKS are often acting out a more grown-up version of a toddler's temper tantrum. In most cases, a parent who dumps a load of garbage at your office door actually feels threatened or powerless.

Parents on power trips

And if a toddler cannot satisfy hisdesires, he gets frustrated and angry and may then give full vent to his feelings by throwing a tantrum.

MERCURY MEDIC; DR JAMES BRISCOE is Medical Director at Woodbourne Priory Hospital

Some of them worked, some didn't, but no one at BBC or Sunset + Vine went into a tantrum over them, nor did they go public over them.

Letter: Childish tantrums at Channel 4; Philip Angus is unimpressed by the fuss over the speed sensing issue

Tesco is developing plans for what it calls the Tantrum Tamer with trolley manufacturer Wanzl.