tantruming 5 yr old

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hi, would appreiate any thoughts on this..dd five next week-has had bad tantrums about once a week around 5.30pm recently-seems tiredness related and she is finding school fun but tiring. tonight she screamed all the way home from a friends at 5pm( a 20 min walk...)i put her straight to bed when we got in and she went to sleep.
she has always had a bit of a temper- have tried lots of different strategies, but is there any consequence that might help her learn not to behave like this- or is it an age thing that will pass? she seems to go into meltdown v quickly and v difficult to distract or prempt - we try and keep afterschool stuff to a minimum as am aware she is tired from school.
thanx in advance for any thoughts!

Only once a week?

well, she does other stuff too, but i can cope with that...and reckon it's normalish for her age!

normal, don't panic! ds1 and ds2 both same at that age, behaving almost like toddlers at time,stamping feet, growling and screeching at me!
Nearly always due to being overly tired, worked hard at school (Y1 always a big leap from Reception) and trying to suss out their own independence vs needing mum and dad vs not really being able to switch off sometimes.
It has passed with ds1 and he's rather pleasant company again now

normal? really?!! thanks but can hardly believe it...i mean she chucks stuff about and screams ...just like a toddler.
had to phone dp to get her home tonight as couldn't carry her home ( bad back) and she wouldn't walk. seriously thought of ringing a cab to get home(!)and just feel i should be able to control my child!
is it just like a toddler tantrum ( which i would just wait to pass) or should i have higher expectations?

Oh yes! DS 5 and a half had two full blown melt downs tantrums over the Christmas period. One was due to the fact he didn't want to walk and the second was when we went ice skating and he didn't like it but completely lost the plot becuase i refused to make his brother come off the ice. I hadn't seen him tantrum like that in a long time. When he went back to school teacher was a bit concerned 'he wasn't himself' and although no major tantrums he was very fractious and 'on the edge'.

However we made sure he got plenty of sleep and got back into his school routine. We all put it down to the over excitement and tiredness cause by Christmas. It is a phase. This one lasted about 3/4 weeks and now he's back to normal!

I can only speak from experience with my dcs but certainly ds2 has had moments of getting so worked up and cross about whatever it is that got his goat that he has flopped down to the floor and no amount of reasoning and persuasion has got him to calm down and get up and he seems to be doing it on purpose to be difficult. I've said to him that he's being silly and even his toddler brother isn't that silly with tantrums but we've had to leave him to stew in his own juices for a bit and when he's really cross we send him upstairs to give his pillow a punch or he can sometimes lash out, It's very out of character for him but being overtired seems to trigger it for him.
Hope you manage to avoid too many repeat episodes...and that your back gets better

mollie,display and tomato-thanx for support and lovely comments-much appreciated!