Tears and Tantrums: What to Do When Babies and Children Cry

Parents and early childhood educators ask more questions about crying than about any other topic, wondering whether it is appropriate to comfort, ignore, distract, punish, give in, or listen empathically to children when they cry. Tears and Tantrums is a highly readable, compassionate, and well-researched book in which the author addresses these common questions and concerns.

There has been a huge misunderstanding about the purpose of crying in healthy development, leading to the wide-sprea...