Temper Tantrum, Meltdowns and Co-Regulation
Picture yourself on the grocery store with your child. Suddenly, passing by the toy section your kid starts asking you for a very expensive toy, you said no and try to explaining that its to expensive, then the child starts yelling, and that’s when you decide to adopt a more firm approach and give him a clear “NO” , then he start crying and throw himself on the floor. Now imagine that you are at home cooking a meal, your child is in the living room playing on his tablet. Suddenly you hear a loud noise, you check the kid and he is rocking (increasing self-stimulatory behaviours) and repeating words or phrases over and over (echolalia), the tablet is in the floor. This have happened before and you know that the child gets mad when the tablet shutdowns, you pick up the tablet that now has a broken screen, you approach the child and ask him what happened, if he is okay, and you start talking about how expensive the tablet was and lecture him about not throwing the tablet when the battery ...