Richard Hogan: Want to avoid toddler tantrums or teenage drama? How to set boundaries

How should you deal with a toddler tantrum at the tills, or a teenager's transgressions... you create a healthy boundary and stick to it

'All the research on child development will point to the same thing, children need clear boundaries to understand that all behaviours have consequences'. File pictiure: iStock

“Good fences make good neighbours,” wrote the great American poet Robert Frost in his poem Mending Wall.

The poem explores the need humans have for walls and boundaries. Boundaries, Frost suggests, are what help us to interact with each other in a coherent and structured way.