How to manage and prevent children's shopping meltdowns

Kids act up in stores--it's a fact of life like birth and taxes. Ideally, we parents should march our little miscreants out when they misbehave, but that's not always practical. I heard one (rather self-righteous) mom say that she leaves the cart and goes home if her kid acts up. That's counter-productive. She's taught the kids nothing and made more work for herself and the poor clerk who has to put her groceries away. Here are better strategies. How to manage and prevent children's shopping meltdowns 

Discipline in the Classroom: Learning to Choose Your Battles

Developmental psychology is a fascinating study, but we have to be careful that when explore child psychology that we don't lose the child in the study. Each child is unique and individual; the whole of a child is greater than the sum of the parts. Read more...

Why Children Throw Temper Tantrums in Public

Why Children Act Out and Throw Temper Tantrums in Public
You've seen them in the store and about. Out of control kids; screaming, temper tantrums, anger. You wish that the parent would do something. Then you see parent in action and understand. Children act out for a reason. Being 'a brat' is not a reason. Kids are learning self discipline and there are things you can do to help.
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