Health Tip: Dealing With Temper Tantrums

(HealthDay News) -- When some young children become frustrated, they throw temper tantrums.

To help a child learn to deal with his or her emotions in a healthier way, follow these suggestions from the Nemours Foundation:

• Help your child express what he''s feeling and why. Have a conversation with him, instead of an argument. Praise your child for talking calmly about what''s making him angry.
• Encourage your child to walk away from a situation when he is angry, and allow him to spend some time alone to calm down.
• Give your child other methods of expressing his anger -- let him write or draw what he is feeling.
• Have your child perform another activity that can help take his mind off of what''s made him angry. Have him run around outside, dance around the bedroom, or do a few cartwheels.

-- Diana Kohnle

Last Updated: June 15, 2007

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