The Truth About Toddler Tantrums

After Bedtime with Big Little Feelings

Dear Media and Big Little Feelings

Big Little Feelings, After Bedtime, Deena Margolin, After Bedtime With Big Little Feelings, Kids & Family, Parenting, 105161, Kristin Gallant

4.7 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

You’ve been told tantrums are bad behavior. That your kid is “too much.” That if they’re melting down in the grocery store, you’re doing something wrong. Let’s burn that narrative to the ground.

In this raw, science-backed, and radically honest episode, Kristin and Deena unpack the real reason tantrums happen (spoiler: it’s not defiance), why old-school discipline tactics are failing our kids—and ourselves—and what to do instead.

We’re breaking generational cycles, regulating in the cereal aisle, and raising kids who don’t have to unlearn their feelings.

This isn’t just parenting. It’s a revolution.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:05.1	Welcome to After Bedtime, where the house is finally quiet, but the real noise begins.
0:11.6	The thoughts, the questions, the wondering if you're doing any of this right.
0:15.6	We're Kristen and Dina, child behavior experts, moms, and co-founders of big little feelings, and we're not here
0:22.3	to give you more pressure or perfect parenting energy. Nope. We're here to tell the truth,
0:27.4	the unfiltered, beautiful, brutal truth about what it means to raise kids and re-raise ourselves
0:33.4	in the process. Because parenting isn't just about sleep schedules and snack hacks. It's about
0:38.2	healing. It's about breaking cycles. It's about becoming the kind of adult you want your kids to grow up
0:44.0	to be. This is the place where we say the quiet parts out loud, and we're so glad that you're here.
0:50.4	Welcome back to another episode of After Bedtime. And if you've ever thought the phrase, why is my kid like this? Well, this one's for you.
0:59.9	And if you've ever walked out of a Target bathroom holding a screaming toddler under one arm and a pack of wipes in the other, this one's really for you.
1:07.5	Wait, did you see me yesterday at Target? I did. Today's episode, we are talking tantrums.
1:13.7	Not the picture perfect parenting advice. We're talking the real gritty. I feel like I'm failing moments.
1:20.4	And what's actually going on under the surface. Because here's the truth no one told you.
1:25.6	Your child isn't broken and neither are you. You've just been handed a parenting script rooted in shame, control, and silence. And we're here to burn it to the ground. Burn it to the ground, baby.
1:38.7	Kristen, hey girl. Oh my God, Dina. How are you? How are you? I feel okay.
1:44.6	You do?
1:45.3	Yeah.
1:45.6	I feel like I ask you this every time and you're okay.
1:48.5	Yeah, it's probably just an easy response for all the nuance that's underneath it.
1:53.5	But how are you really doing?
1:55.2	How am I really?
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