Every parent is all too familiar with The Tantrum. The screaming, the flailing arms, the angry head butting — and the timing (normally in the most inconvenient public place possible).
My daughter may only be a little over a year but she is already showing alarming signs of excelling at the having-a-tantrum-in-public repertoire.
As time spent baby-book flicking or middle-of-the-night Googling will confirm, these tantrums generally stem from one issue: frustration at not being able to communicate.
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