DS1 is coming up for 7 and his constant crying at certain situations is really starting to get us all down.
Yesterday he couldn't find his coat (I'd just hung it up where it belonged rather than left it on the banister so it was all of a metre away) and he bursts in to tears.
Today he can't find a pencil sharpener to do his homework, he bursts in to tears.
It's always fairly every day mundane things that just become huge dramas multiple times a day and it's really becoming wearing.
He's always been very sensitive and had a lot of support from SALT up until he started school (from difficult swallowing when weaning, then late talking, then helping with his aversion to change with visual timetables etc). He does well academically but it's always brought up at parents evening that he's highly strung but school can usually contain it (plus I think he doesn't want to cry too much in front of his friends where as at home he lets it all out).
It just seems so unnecessary for everything to become such an upset for him. We give him praise and affection, we've talked to him about how he can keep calm and in turn deal with a problem more effectively, we've tried all we can think of, but he has to learn that sometimes things can't be exactly how he wants and to know how to deal with that and at nearly 7 I hoped he'd have made progress, for his own sake as much as ours.
Does anyone have any ideas? I thought I'd try here before the school nurse. Sorry it's so long!