Toddler Taming

Tantrums are extremely common among children aged 18-36 months. They’re how young children deal with difficult feelings. It helps to avoid situations that trigger your child’s tantrums, and to have a plan for managing them. Hang in there – tantrums tend to tail off after children turn four. This web site offers some excellent strategies to help you manage and limit these mini explosions from your toddler and is also a brilliant resource for parents of children of any age.

Children between one and three years of age are generally enthusiastic and energetic. Sometimes, however, their behaviour can be difficult to manage. Understanding the very big changes that take place in children of this age and working around them can help reduce troubles. This site offers ideas on how to cope with various aspects of toddler behaviour including aggression and tantrums.

Toddlers can be demanding, but they can also be wonderful. BabyCenter provides you with exclusive extracts from Penelope Leach's best-selling book 'Your Baby and Child' to help guide you through these busy years. Penelope answers your questions on living with, and enjoying, your growing child, coping with tantrums and other common toddler behaviour.

There is so much confusion around the issue of discipline. And so much fear. We can set up power struggles, even with babies – or we can teach our children real ‘goodness’ that lasts. BellyBelly has provided an article on toddler discipline that is a very useful, common sense guide to setting up a positive discipline system. There are also lots of other articles here that are essential reading for mums of toddlers.