How emotional is your 6 year old?

[Drinkandknowthings]

Because I’m really not sure if I should be consoling DD or helping her be more resilient (and if so, how)

She’s just had a ‘can’t talk properly’ crying episode because a balloon she blew up too big popped. That’s not out of the norm for her. Anytime something happens differently to what she imagines it will/expects, her reaction is loud wailing/crying.

She doesn’t do it in school but at home or with family. One time she went with FIL to drop BIL somewhere. FIL said she could have a cupcake but when they got there it was busy and there was nowhere to sit and she again couldn’t cope.

She’s my first so I’m just not sure if this is on the to be expected.

The balloon popper a few mins ago and she’s still sobbing.

Well the question to ask is why does she do it around family not school?

Be honest - how did family react when she had toddler tumbles and were you a gung ho family or risk reverse?

It sounds like my sil kids - their family hyer ventilate every time the children tumble - I mean tumble and put hands down no bruises - and rush forward in a panic for example and the children have learned to panic

Perhaps all practice resilience ?

mrspear we’re not like that regarding tumbles - it’s not about tumbles. It’s about when things happen in a way she doesn’t expect or things don’t go her way. Her reactions just seem really extreme.

My dd is 6.
She is a whirlwind of emotions. Some things that I would find upsetting , she copes with really well. Other "trivial" things cause a proper meltdown.
Eg, very pretty bird laying dead at the side of the road. She says in normal conversation how sad it is for the bird, and its family . Do I think other birds will miss it?
Then something at the other end of the scale. She has left her worn clothes on the bedroom floor. I step on a crumpled sock to tuck her in. Oh no. Poor sock. Total disaster. World ending screams.
She is on the adhd asd pathway

As for the pp who asked about tumbles.
She used to trip and stumble hundreds of times a day .
We only made a bit of fuss if there was a lot if blood. Or a head bruise. Or she wouldn't stop crying after a "longer time".

mynamehasbeentaken that sounds exactly like DD.

She also can get really ‘extra’. Like she’ll be watching something on tv and start laughing really loudly and for a long time like it’s the funniest thing ever but it sounds really forced and like she’s just acting for want of a better word.

My DS is 6 and the tiniest thing can send him crying as if someone murdered a puppy in front of him. It's bewildering but appears to be very normal from what his friends' parents tell me! Yesterday he let out a devastated "everyone I love is dead and I have now stubbed my toe" wail of abject heartbreak because the unicorn temporary tattoo on his arm got a crease in it.

Your DD sounds exactly like my DS :) He does that 'acting' thing as well. I do wonder if he's just testing things out for himself and trying to learn social cues (badly).