My daughter has continued to struggle with big emotions!
Her mornings from the second she wakes up are full of anger. She is yelling, stomping, and just aggravated. I can’t figure out how to help. Have any ideas? Waking up to start the day like this is rough!
How can I teach my almost 5yo to tolerate frustration?
My 7yo and 5yo sons have nasty fights. What is the best way to handle them?
My 7yo and 5yo sons play well most of the time but continue to get into nasty fights over silly things and I see a lot of anger coming from both of them when the other does something annoying.
Should I punish the one that hits by placing them in time-out or taking away a benefit like no tv later etc?
My 3.5yo's anger is big and she's hitting. How do I handle this?
My 3.5 yo daughter is a very determined, assertive leader. Very different from my son. Slowly I’m learning to channel that big girl energy. However, I get really annoyed (maybe even triggered) with her anger. She feels it in her whole body, makes faces, her body gets stiff, etc. Lately she has been hitting us with whatever object or her hand…hard.
We had a playdate incident and would like to understand my daughter's big feelings.
We had a little incident at a playdate recently. We met another family at the park for lunch. My daughter doesn't know the little girl all that well, but she had a lot of fun on the playground with her. We went on to ride the train at the park and she said she wanted to sit alone (vs with her friend). I said, “oh honey, let's sit with our new friend” and she said no. There were limited seats so the other mom sat with her daughter and son in the front row seat (it was a quick shuffle). My daughter had a fit because she wanted to sit in the front and kept saying "no one is listening to me." She and I ended up sitting together a few seats away from them and she kept saying "they are so mean, they are so stupid, I am never playing with them again, I just want to scream so badly."
Should I have just taken her home right after the train ride?
Why does she get particularly stuck around the “no one is listening to me” scenarios?
My 4.5yo is scowling and and tightening his fist when upset. Is this normal?
My daughter's anger is intense. How do I help her through big feelings?
When my daughter gets mad she goes from 0 to 60 and gets so big saying, “I hate this person”, “they are so stupid”, “I never want to see them again”, “go home” and will say it loud and repeatedly. What else can I do in the moment to help her not say things that make the whole thing worse or do I just embrace the tantrum in totality?