Three Lines a Day: Why Logging Helps Parents Survive the Tantrum Years

Audience
Parents of children 18 months – 3 years
Target length
~1,500 words
Status
Draft v2 (translated from Japanese v2)
Original
../01_iyaiya_log.md

Lead

There is no shortage of articles about how to handle toddler tantrums. Validate the feeling. Offer choices. Step away if you must. All of it is correct.

And yet — if you still finish the day thinking I failed today again, the missing piece may not be another technique. It may be a way to pull what you are seeing out of your own head.

This piece argues for something at a slight angle from the usual: getting through the tantrum years by writing them down.