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SEATTLE — Jenny Kanevsky waited until her 5-year-old son was safely in the car before bursting into tears herself. Tantrums at home are bad enough, but a child throwing a fit in a public place is a parent’s worst nightmare. The snide comments and stares as she carried her tantrum-throwing son out of a downtown bookstore had made a challenging situation worse. “I wanted to say, ‘Why are you looking at me like this?’” said Kanevsky, a West Seattle author and mom of two. “He’s fine. He’s just having a tantrum. You can go back to what you were doing.” Public tantrums are a parent’s nightmare, said Bridgett Blackburn, a parent educator who teaches classes at Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue, Wash. “You feel so chastised and judged and on display.” Tantrums are the dark side of boring errands and fun day trips. “The disapprov... |
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