Your kid is having a tantrum in public. Now what?

Life Kit: Parenting

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Kids & Family

4.4 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Meltdowns, refusing to share, hitting other kids. Every child has bad behavior sometimes. At home, it's easier to deal with. But what about in public? Psychologist Celina Benavides explains what to do in the moment — and how to get ahead of bad behavior.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
0:05.4	RWJF is a national philanthropy working toward a future where health is no longer a privilege but a right.
0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:15.6	You're listening to LifeKit from NPR.
0:21.1	Hey everybody, it's Mariel.
0:23.6	There's a moment that every parent and caregiver dreads.
0:28.7	We had gone into a grocery store and it was about to start to go down.
0:33.6	It's the moment when you're otherwise happy and, frankly, charming child starts to lose it.
0:40.2	And everybody's watching.
0:41.8	She was getting upset.
0:42.8	I had just started loading up my cart.
0:45.0	I knew she was overly tired.
0:46.6	I was pushing it.
0:47.5	Selina Benevides is a developmental psychologist and a professor at Oxnard College in California.
0:53.1	She spends a lot of time thinking about how to help people navigate parenthood.
0:57.2	And she admits there's an extra layer of challenge when you have to make parenting decisions in public.
1:03.4	It's no longer in the comfort of our home where we might have a certain practice or routine habits established with our children.
1:12.2	And we fill the judgmental eyes from other people. And that can shape how we parent and also how children
1:17.8	might respond to us. Today on Life Kit, journalist Emily Siner is going to talk to Selena about
1:22.5	your questions on parenting in public. We're talking tantrums in the grocery store, toy disputes with other kids,
1:28.6	scuffles on the playground, and what you can do to feel just a little calmer as it's all going down.
1:38.9	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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