ABSTRACT
She goes red in the face, cries, and throws herself onto the floor where she kicks and screams, crying, screaming and shouting at me. She then stops, wriggles to the nearest object and throws it–screaming at the same time. It then continues with her screaming, hitting, and kicking the floor and anything in her way.
–A mother’s description of her 3-year-old girl’s tantrum.