#tantrum

My daughter had an epic tantrum over a gift for someone else. What is happening?

My daughter had an epic tantrum this morning. She went downstairs to make her cousin a birthday card and she remembered that we are giving her a gift that she has never had before. So my daughter came up the stairs crying and screaming how she needs to have the same gift as her cousin but in a crazy aggressive way. I tried to explain to her that when we want things that we don’t have, we can figure it out. She was still screaming and crying saying, “I hate my cousin, I neeeeeed the gift for myself”.