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My five year old is sooooooooo emotional atm

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emkana · 03/09/2006 12:28

On holiday she cried and screamed for half an hour, totally beside herself, because we didn't let her take about two pounds worth of stones with her in her coat pocket. We made her choose the best ones, but apparently she "loved them all so much" and was distraught.
Just now she watched a recording of the Maria programme and is now really upset because her favourite was voted out.
It's tricky when it's something like the thing with the stones, because I just can't get my head round it why she would get upset about something so silly.

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TitianRed · 03/09/2006 14:09

It sounds to me that she's transferring her anxiety about something else! Is she worried about going back to school?

tiredmumov3 · 03/09/2006 14:19

know how you feel my 5 yr old son is exactly the same i agree with pp also my son is worse when hes tired infact its often a way his tiredness shows through now hes getting older a sleep usually sorts him.

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emkana · 03/09/2006 20:18

Titianred - I'm afraid you're probably exactly right.
Her brother has been in hospital twice since he was born 11 weeks ago and we are worrying a lot about him. That must have an effect on her.

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CurrantBun · 05/09/2006 16:51

I think some children are just like that - I was a very 'emotiona' child. My first school report read, "I am very concerned about her emotional outbursts ..."

If I lost my pencil or something equally trivial at school, I would have hysterics. At one point, my parents had to take me out of assembly for a few weeks because the Lord's Prayer would set me off (the line "our Father, who art in Heaven" apparently made me think of my own dad and I would think he'd died). My mum had to draw open eyes on all the sleeping cats in a book I had as I couldn't bear the thought that the cats had no eyes. On a day trip to the beach once, there was a large poster of a foot dripping blood with a message underneath saying, 'This could be you' (warning about broken glass on the beach). This gave me nightmares for days.

I was a very bright, but very sensitive child. I grew out of the 'emotional outbursts' and there were never any repercussions. I don't think it's anything to worry about at this stage. I was about 6 or so before I got over this.

Blu · 05/09/2006 17:02

Emkana - she is almost certainly reacting to the raised emotional temperature of the last few months - who wouldn't, really - and i think it shows that she is 'normal' - just that at her age she doesn't consciously know how to process it all.

I think it is quite an emotional age, too - she is probably experiencing a very heightened sense of a natural phase.

DS made me want to hide under a bush in battersea park the other week - it started to pur with rain as we were walking past the Buddha. Ds starts up a wailing as if he was starring in Tosca, threw his arms in the air, and at the top of his voice was shouting 'Please Buddha, I pray to you with all my life, please stop this rain, stop all the thunder and lightening, please God, Buddha...' etc etc for bloody ages. (we are not at all religious, either). We have also had a summer of heightened anthropomorphism (?) applied to every object, animal (live or stuffed) or plant he has come into contact with.

hunkermunker · 05/09/2006 17:06

Emkana, it's a bit of a dirty term on MN atm, but have you seen the Highly Sensitive Child by Elaine Aron? Have a look here.

She sounds very like I was as a child - I have to stop myself now feeling sorry for inanimate objects...

Blu · 07/09/2006 12:46

How is she now emkana? Is she settling into school?

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Marina · 07/09/2006 12:53

Blu, do you not remember one of Scummy's boys and the pigeon encounter at this age? Cannot remember details, do remember PMSL at it. Ds was a packet of prawn cocktail crisps for some days at this age btw. And I would deffo grass your ds up back to his nursery teacher - sounds like he is diversifying a bit there
Emkana, as others have said, of course she is going to be worried about her db - we're all concerned and most of us have never even met you , but this is an age where they really do max out on the displays of heightened emotion. I wonder whether it is a more verbal, reasoned version of the toddler tantrum, as they finally, hopefully, leave this era of their lives behind...
So I think quite a bit of this would be par for the course anyway. Honest. I know how wearing it can be though and it is not what you need at the minute

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