What Not to Say to a Screaming Toddler

Karen Shiebler
5 min readDec 2, 2019

Why the little guys can’t just “use your words.”

“Joy ….” by Citril is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Every parent and grandparent knows that when a toddler is having a tantrum, we’re supposed to ignore them. We aren’t supposed to give them our attention, because that’s what they crave.

Theoretically, anyway.

But what ARE we supposed to do when a toddler in our care throws themself down on the…

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Karen Shiebler

A Mother, a grandmother, a progressive voter. I write because it’s getting harder to march and because words are my weapon. I blog at momshieb.wordpress.com