Top 10 Considerations When Addressing A Child's Tantrum During Family Pictures

What We Were Never Taught: Relationships, Marriage & Family — From Parenting Doctors · Dec 10, 2015 · 7m

This 7-minute podcast focuses on the Top 10 considerations when addressing a child’s tantrum during family pictures

(1) When parents take the short cut and reinforce the child’s refusal beahviors and tantrums with sour patch candy, a snickers bar, a twix, or some kind of gummy, this has the following consequences:

a. Reinforces tantrums and other misbehavior.

b. Teaches a child that candy is the only solution to stress management.

c. Delays a child’s learning about how to delay gratification.

d. Delays a child’s learning of key tenets of Emotional intelligence such as self control.

e. Sets a…