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The new 'Jessica' trick parents are using to end tantrums explained by psychology

If you’ve been anywhere near parenting TikTok lately, you may have seen some videos of parents yelling "Jessica!" to calm their child's tantrum. The idea is simple: when a child is crying, yelling, or ...
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Six Ways to Respond to Your Child’s Tantrum

My daughter Carys was two when she discovered the devastating injustice of gravity. She’d been carefully stacking wooden blocks into a tower. It was higher than any structure she’d built before, but ...