Calming a Fussy Baby

This video helps parents and caregivers create the best possible environment in which to maximize a baby’s learning potential. Topics include gross motor development, reading a baby’s cues, tummy time, language development, crawling, communication, calming an infant, establishing routines, feeding, encouraging play, and dressing.

Video Duration: 61 min

In this book, Dr. Brazelton describes the ways that babies communicate through crying and discusses effective ways that parents can respond to different cries.

This book focuses on how to convey “No” to a toddler in a way that will help to prevent temper tantrums, as well as other aspects of toddler development that trigger tantrums.

This book includes real-life stories about temper tantrums and other challenging behaviors and how to manage them successfully.

This fully revised and updated book includes the latest insights into infant sleep, bedsharing, breastfeeding, swaddling, and SIDS risk.

This book explains how tantrums in toddlers are normal but avoidable, what leads to temper tantrums, how to communicate effectively with toddlers, and how to reduce tantrums.

The book is based on the scientific- and parental-world-changing discovery of a phenomenon: all normal, healthy babies appear to be more fussy at very nearly the same ages, regression periods, and sleep less in these phases.

The book offers practical, age-appropriate toddler discipline strategies for managing the everyday challenges of toddlerhood and guiding your child to becoming their best self.

Learn about the theory of the mind and how toddlers come to understand how their actions can affect others. Examine how gender and temperament play a role in development. Observe toddlers interacting with family and peers as they develop attachments and social bonds. Closed-caption included.

Video Duration: 28 min

This book includes information about temper tantrums, including steps for parents to prevent them from happening.

By watching a dozen families in unique situations, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton shows how and why children develop the way they do. Touchpoints are defined as periods of time that precede rapid growth in learning for parent and child. This DVD provides comprehensive information on development of infants and toddlers, including how to manage temper tantrums and excessive crying appropriately.

Video Duration: 132 min

This service offers free phone consultation and fee-based in-home consultations to help families struggling with their infant’s crying, sleeping, or feeding. Services available from the network include parent groups, a “warmline,” and an infant specialist who will work with parents to find effective ways to care for their baby. All services are available in English and Spanish.

This website from the Nemours Foundation explains why children have temper tantrums and how to avoid them.

You’re out in public with your toddler or preschooler when the whining starts. Don’t panic! When you take a calm, problem-solving approach, you help your child learn to calm himself when he is irritable.

There’s no sure cure for young children’s public temper tantrums. But some simple steps can reduce the chances that your toddler or preschooler will “pitch a fit” when you run errands together.

This website from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health provides information to understand temper tantrums and what parents can do when children exhibit this behavior.

This pamphlet provides information about temper tantrums and questions for caregivers to create a “plan of action” for the child.

For parents and teachers on how to manage temper tantrums, prevent them from happening, and what to do after they occur.

Information about why temper tantrums occur and how parents should react to them.

This website from the American Academy of Pediatrics provides tips on how caregivers can handle temper tantrums.