Do you sometimes find your child's tears or tantrums overly dramatic and uncalled for? What if I offered another perspective: That tears and tantrums are an innate and rather brilliant healing mechanism for children to release accumulated stress and tension? From an Aware Parenting point of view, your child's expression of big feelings while being lovingly listened to can not only support them in releasing stress, but can help them heal from hurts and trauma, too.

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Tears and Tantrums: What to Do When Babies & Children Cry by Aletha Solter, Ph. D.