Tiny Tyrants

Enjoying the toddler years, one tantrum at a time

Noor Al Hashimi2 episodes1 min of audio115 playsEpisodic

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S1 · E2Sep 29, 20260:3950 plays Preview

My toddler is not talking yet

Speech and language therapist Fatima Darwish joins Noor to explain what typical speech looks like at 18 months, two and three, when to worry, and how screens and bilingual homes fit in.

S1 · E1Jan 5, 20260:3665 plays Members

The supermarket meltdown

Noor breaks down what is happening when a two-year-old collapses in aisle four, why reasoning does not work mid-tantrum, and the three things she does with her own twins that end it faster.

About the show

Tiny Tyrants is a weekly show for parents of children aged one to four, hosted by Noor Al Hashimi, an early years educator in Abu Dhabi and mother of twin three-year-olds. Each 30-minute episode takes one daily battle, such as the supermarket meltdown, the refusal to wear shoes, biting at nursery, the 5am wake-up, the sudden hatred of a food loved yesterday, and explains what is happening in a toddler's brain and what actually helps. Noor mixes solo episodes drawn from fourteen years in nursery classrooms with conversations with speech therapists, paediatric nurses and, most usefully, other exhausted parents. There is no perfect-parent voice here. Noor talks openly about her own bad days, her Emirati mother's advice that worked and the advice that did not, and the difference between a phase and a problem. If you are hiding in the bathroom with your phone while a small person screams about a blue cup, this show is for you.

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