11/03/2023
Why do kids throw tantrum?
To a growing child, a lot of emotions they face are confusing. For instance, as an adult, you associate feeling cold with feeling the chill on your skin. The grumble in your stomach with hunger and the feeling of restlessness with discomfort with something your wearing or your current situation. However, when it comes to children, most of these feelings are foreign to them. It is only as they grow, they learn to name the discomfort they feel. Until then, they express all these discomforts in the ways that annoy adults and we term it singularly as tantrum, which actually has a better name such as hunger, tiredness, sibling rivalry etc.
So, next time when your child throws tantrum, first ask these basic questions to yourself and your kids.
- Are they hungry or thirsty?
- Are they feeling hot or cold?
- Are they feeling comfortable in their dress? Do they want something comfortable to wear?
- Are they Tired/sleepy?
- Are they frustrated at something not related to present context such as bullying at school or playground?
- Is sibling rivalry the reason of the frustration?
- Is your attention diverted to something or someone else, when kid was asking for it?
- Do they like something and want it?
- Do they want to avoid cleaning up, washing their hands, or just going to bed?
- Are they missing someone, like grandparents?
Read our article on managing kid's tantrum in right way https://www.myschoolz.com/blog/how-to-handle-tantrum-and-meltdown-in-kids