Your 11-year-old is writhing on the floor, alternately crying and screaming. Could it be … a tantrum?
While it may be shocking to witness your savvy tween regress to the emotional level of a 2-year-old, psychologists say tantrums are fairly common among pre-teens. “Just like toddlers, they get frustrated and don’t have the skills to verbalize it,” says psychologist Stephanie Smith, the public education coordinator for the American Psychological Association.
