Remember your toddler’s last tantrum. It may have been set off by the most innocuous request, like “Aiden, put on your coat.” Then heavy storm clouds start sweeping over your sunny, calm child, and before you know it, a full blown hurricane hits: his body goes limp like wet spaghetti, he’s prone on the floor (most often in an inconvenient public space), and he’s caught in an uncontrollable kicking and screaming frenzy. Sound familiar? While there are many tips on how to manage your tot’s meltdowns, Dr. Laura Markham shares additional insight:

“Kids are more physical than adults. When they get wound up emotionally, their bodies need to discharge all that energy.  That’s one of the reasons they have so much more energy than we do, so they wear us out.”

But we can use this to our advantage, because when we play physical games with children, they giggle and sweat and scream–and they release pent-up stress hormones positively instead of releasing them by having a tantrum.

(Playful Bee is launching our new DIY Preschool from Birth program! Click here to enroll.)

Sign up for the Babee Play beta today at www.babeeplay.com and find a variety of physical games and activities to do with your toddler to channel all of his excess energy and emotions effectively and positively.

For more information:

BabyCenter Medical Advisory Board (2011). Tantrums. BabyCenter. Retrieved April 16, 2013, from http://www.babycenter.com/0_tantrums_11569.bc.

Varma, Anjali (2012). How to Manage Toddler Meltdowns. HuffPost: Parents. Retrieved April 16, 2013 from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anjali-varma/tantrums_b_1383237.html.

Markham, Laura, Ph.D. Playing with Your Child: Games for Connection and Emotional Intelligence. Aha! Parenting. Retrieved April 16, 2013, from http://www.ahaparenting.com/parenting-tools/connection/play-child-emotional-intelligence.

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I'm the momma of Gemma, a curious 3-year old, and Foxin, a rambling 1-year old, so I'm deep in the trenches every day, just like you. I'm deeply passionate about early childhood education and policy. On any given day, you'll find me 1) running a mile a minute chasing after my tots, 2) busy at work with Playful Bee, 3) cuddling with my dogs, 4) chowing down on a delicious meal with my hubby, and 5) enjoying a bit of zen during a hot stone massage. As young parents, our days may be long and years short, but ahhhh...life can be good if we let it.

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