temper tantra

English

Etymology

Pluralized according to the Latin second declension (-um → -a).

Noun

temper tantra

1. (rare, proscribed) plural of temper tantrum
   • 1937, Ira S. Wile, Ann B. Jones, “Ordinal Position and the Behavior Disorders of Young Children”, in Carl Murchison, editor, The Pedagogical Seminary and Journal of Genetic Psychology: Child Behavior, Animal Behavior, and Comparative Psychology, volume 51, Provincetown, Mass.: The Journal Press, pages 64 and 72:

     Temper tantra were associated with restlessness and quarreling with others to the extent of 50 per cent. […] It appears that temper tantra occur most frequently among the younger and middle children, who have older siblings to annoy them and prevent them from attaining their wishes.

   • 1940 January, James J. Brooks, “Ordinal Position and the Behavior Disorders of Young Children. I. S. Wile and A. B. Jones. Journal of Genetic Psychology. 51:61-93. 1937.”, in Criminal Psychopathology, volume 1, number 3, page 290:

     No definite influence is shown by ordinal positions; results of the Stanford Binet scale showed that the children were normal intellectually, in all groups, and several traits, as temper tantra, quarrels with others, restlessness, etc., were as common among the low I. Q. group as the high I. Q. group.

   • 1941 April, Ira S. Wile, Rose Davis, “A Study of Failures on the Stanford Binet in Relation to Behavior and School Problems”, in The Journal of Educational Psychology, volume XXXII, number 4, page 277:

     Problems Presented by 100 Children / Problems referred / Aggressive behavior / Temper tantra, pugnacity, disobedience, etc.

   • 1944 April, Joel Milam Hill, “Nervous Reactions in Naval War Time Personnel”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 43, number 4, Portland, Ore., Seattle, Wash., Boise, Ida.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 115, column 1:

     The child of such parents protests by what are called “early neurotic traits.” These consist of prolonged enuresis, thumb-sucking or fear of the dark, nail biting, frequent nightmares, sleep walking and sleep talking, stammering or twitching, temper tantra, being truant from home or school, and lying and stealing.

   • 1955, David Crocker, “The Study of a Problem of Aggression”, in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, volume X, New York, N.Y.: International Universities Press, Inc., →LCCN, section “Clinical Presentations”, page 334:

     The crucial trauma seems to have taken place around the uncontrolled, and seductive stimulations which took place in all phases of libidinal development, which led to a breakdown of ego mastery, and the release of aggression in temper tantra and other destructive ways, some of them self-destructive.

   • 1960, James F. Bosma, “[Roentgenologic Studies of Respiration in Infants] Glossopharyngeal Respiration as a Part of Focal Seizures of the Pharyngeal Area in an Infant”, in Acta Pædiatrica, volume 49, Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell Boktryckeri AB, page 60, column 1:

     Likewise, Kanner (17) and Low (18) point to the good prognosis of the infants and small children having temper tantra and breath-holding spells.

   • 1974, Herbert S. Strean, “The Social Worker as Child Therapist”, in The Social Worker as Psychotherapist, Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 144:

     If the parents and/or significant others are not able to empathize with the child's struggles, intense negativism, spitefulness, temper tantra, and rebelliousness become intensified.

   • 1978, Louis R. Ormont, Herbert S. Strean, “Conjoint Treatment in Action: David”, in The Practice of Conjoint Therapy: Combining Individual and Group Treatment, New York, N.Y., London: Human Sciences Press, →ISBN, pages 189 and 191:

     A very tall, well-built man with a strikingly handsome appearance, David was acutely depressed, suffered from migraine headaches, insomnia, nightmares, temper tantra, and free floating anxiety. […] Whenever he did not experience the grandiose, omnipotent feeling that he so frequently received from his mother, his narcissism was punctured, and he coped with this psychological injury by attacking frustrating objects with temper tantra or other forms of derision.

   • 2005, David H[unter] Hubel, Torsten N[ils] Wiesel, “Acknowledgments”, in Brain and Visual Perception: The Story of a 25-Year Collaboration, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 721:

     And to Lyn Feeney, for help in preparing the manuscript and for enduring all my temper tantra over that fearsome obstacle course, Microsoft Word.

   • 2006, Dixe Wills, “[Know How] Where Not to Hide”, in Places to Hide in England, Scotland & Wales, Thriplow, Cambs: Icon Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 188:

     Knowing where to hide is a skill that takes a lifetime to master and the whole business may, at first sight, seem rather a daunting prospect. However, it is possible to avoid some of the tears, traumas and temper tantra of the early years by learning first where not to hide.