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From tantrums to using words for feelings
Putting feelings into words instead of tantrums is a skill that develops gradually across the toddler and early-preschool years, often still unfolding at three or four. You build the bridge by naming feelings calmly, staying alongside your child, teaching feeling words when they're settled, and praising attempts. Seek a developmental check if tantrums are very frequent, intense or long, or come with very few words or difficulty connecting — not as a diagnosis, but because early support works best.
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Children move from tantrums towards naming feelings gradually between about 2 and 5 years. Tantrums peak from 18 months to 3 years when feelings outrun language, ease as emotion words arrive around 3–4, and steady by 5. It's a slow handover with lots of normal wobble — consider a check if intense meltdowns and very few feeling-words persist near 4–5.
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