Health Tip: Help Cool a Temper Tantrum

(HealthDay News) -- When your child's outburst becomes a temper tantrum, especially in a public place, some parents don't know how to react.

The Cleveland Clinic offers these suggestions:

• Stay calm and if possible, ignore your child's tantrum.
• When your child starts to calm down, offer plenty of praise and positive reinforcement.
• Help distract your child and encourage calming down by putting the child in time out.
• Explain that you understand the child's feelings and frustrations.
• Teach your child healthy ways of managing anger and frustration.
• Be a good role model by handling your own frustrations in a calm manner.