Temper tantrums and aggressive behavior can hurt everybody in the family!  That high pitched screaming, wailing, and crying, kicking, punching, and violent, out of control behavior often pushes parents’ buttons until they lose their temper. Then there’s the embar-rassment of the “public” temper tantrum and the pressure from onlookers to stop the screaming and crying and end the temper tantrum now! Desperate to end the temper tantrum and the screaming and crying, parents often do things they later regret and feel guilty about, and cause more problems for them and their child.

Finally! Taking the Terror Out of Temper Tantrums offers solutions, ideas, and practical tools to stop and prevent temper tantrums and bring peace to your family.

Taking the Terror Out of Temper Tantrums is a complete package that offers help for the whole family. It contains a storybook for children, music, simple activities and games parents and kids can enjoy together while learning about emotions, and a section just for parents filled with helpful hints and insights to create a happy family.

Taking the Terror Out of Temper Tantrums Educational Story Activity Kit contains:

• An amusing and delightful children’s book to enjoy & experience with your child
• A CD with  a children’s song, story track set to music, a soothing “heartbeat” track, PLUS an interview for parents with practical suggestions to handle emotions.
• Activity suggestions and tools to encourage parents and children to connect and explore emotions together, thereby preventing many emotional outbursts.
• If you order the downloadable kit, you'll receive a BONUS Wee Bree colouring book and a Flash storybook

Here's a closer look at what Taking the Terror Out of Temper Tantrums Educational Story Activity Kit contains...

"Wee Bree and the Grand Shopping Spree" - A delightfully rhythmic, fun to read and amusing story book gets you and your child talking about temper tantrums. Create magical moments chuckling along with your child as you read Wee Bree and the Grand Shopping Spree again and again! Fun to read and listen to, kids love the humor as they see Mom throwing a temper tantrum right there in the store!

• Use suggested questions and ideas as you read to invite meaningful discussion and increase your connectedness with your child.
• Improve your child’s ability to listen and to express ideas. Help him to develop the art of dialogue – a skill so essential to success and happiness.
• Help your child develop empathy as you explore the story from different points of view.
• Use suggested actions – or make up your own – to make the story even more fun and interactive.

Read it yourself or listen to the story on CD as you enjoy the musical accompaniment with it. 

Click button to view and listen to a sample section from Wee Bree and the Grand Shopping Spree. *Please be patient if you are on a slower computer. To turn pages, put your cursor near the page corner and click, or "grab" the corner and "pull" with your cursor

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The “Wee Bree Song” will have your child wiggling out the frustrations and learning to use the power of breathing to calm herself down.  You’ll both love the catchy and upbeat melody.

• Wee Bree’s song will bring the music out in you & your child with its catchy upbeat rhythm and melody.  Your child will love adding actions that match!
• The sound of the heartbeat and the breathing will teach your child to practice calming down before she’s upset!  Let the sound of the human heartbeat built into the last track calm and soothe emotions before things get out of hand!

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A lively and entertaining discussion with Maggie Reigh and Phil Johnson gives you the information and tools you need to confidently manage your child’s next temper tantrum and gain self control. This interview gives you  more than forty five minutes of sound ideas and practical tools to:

• Calm intense emotions in the heat of the moment
• Prevent temper tantrums from happening
• Turn power struggles into powerful relationships
• Stop taking your child’s temper tantrums personally
• Help children develop self discipline that will last a life time
• Create a peaceful, harmonious family life
• Help you and your spouse come together in creating what you truly want
• Deal effectively with other people’s judgements and “advice.

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Interactive games and activities bring the simple joys of parenting to life and help you connect more meaningfully with your child. Many temper tantrums are the result of broken connections between parents and children. Bring the simple joys of parenting to life with puppetry and other interactive activities to help your child:

• Develop self awareness and self control
• Ignite creativity, imagination, and self expression
• Develop pre-reading and writing skills
• Develop empathy and understanding for self and others
• Improve memory and listening skills
• Learn to take turns
• Plan fun and successful shopping trips with you
• Drain frustrations safely and learn to relax
• Feel secure and connected with you!

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Just some of the tools you'll learn on the included CD:
Ten Top Tips for Ending and Preventing Temper Tantrums

In the Heat of the Moment

1. Calm down yourself!  Breathe. Your state of Being speaks louder than words in calming your child. T-T-T-O-O-T-T! Kit gives you proven, scientific methods for bringing your heart rate down fast so you can think and act clearly.     

2. Decide what you will do; not what you will make your child do.  You can take what appears to be the same action and get totally different results – depending upon your intention.  One will calm the tantrum, the other ignites it.  When you truly understand this, you will have all the confidence you need to deal with the next tantrum.

3. Seek to give the child what they truly need; not what they want! They may want the chocolate bar but what they really need is sleep.

4. If possible, remove the child from the situation that triggered the tantrum… Take the over-stimulated and overwhelmed child away from the relatives or politely suggest the relatives leave!

5. Encourage and allow the child to drain frustration safely.  Most time outs and other attempts to end temper tantrums create frustration.  Frustration is the root of temper tantrums and violence.  You’ll find specific tools for draining frustration in your  T-T-T-O-O-T-T! Kit.

6. Empathize with your child and give names to her emotions – to the frustration and to the emotions underneath the frustration.  (example tired, worried, jealous etc)

7. Don’t take it personally!  Do not assume this is a power struggle that you must win to teach the child who’s the boss.  Instead, think of yourself as a coach in helping your child learn to safely express and eventually control emotions.  Remember that young children are not developmentally capable of the emotional self control that adults are.

Prevent Temper Tantrums

1. Help your child build a ‘feeling’ vocabulary. Many temper tantrums occur because children are frustrated at their inability to express themselves. T-T-T-O-O-T-T! Kit includes specific games and activities to encourage self expression and develop emotional awareness and intelligence.

2. Give children plenty of opportunities to run, jump, tumble and play. Limit or eliminate television and video games and give children time and space to explore their inner world.

3. Play with your children. Connecting is more important than correcting!The heart of frustration comes when children do not feel our love and connection. Turn your judgements into curiosity and allow yourself to enter the child’s world of play, dropping your own agenda and taking your cues from them.