Take charge of your angry tot

IT’S one thing your red-faced toddler hurling himself in fury to the kitchen floor — it‘s another when he does it in the supermarket, café or airport.

Unless you’re calm and stoic, the second scenario is likely to be embarrassing.

It‘s useful to know that a child in a tantrum is not trying to make life difficult for you. “They’re trying to show you how difficult life is for them,” says parent-coach, Marian Byrne.