If your little boy or girl is in daycare all day or elementary school and comes home and melts down, it could be as simple as spending some extra minutes with your child asking questions to access their day and to affirm who they are. Melissa Trevathan and Sissy Goff address this in Raising Boys & Girls when they speak about how little girls, especially, have such a strong desire to please their teacher or daycare provider that when they get home, they are emotionally drained from holding it all together. (I also saw this in a grandchild who is on the autism spectrum when he was first in school.)
It takes intentional parenting to keep your cool. Be willing to give some extra time to quell the raging waters! Sometimes they are hungry, so a bite while you talk may do wonders.
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