Emotional 10 year old girl

[crosspelican]

My 10 year old little girl is a bag of hormones and emotions at the moment. One day she is blissfully happy, hugging me, playing with her sister, and the next day she is a crying snappy argumentative wreck.

This evening being Friday, she was tired and the evening was lovely, but right before bed she felt it had all gone wrong, and cried for half an hour. I feel that I cannot fix what's wrong, because it's emotional, rather than something "real". I do not mean to diminish her feelings because they are of course real but it is impossible to "fix".

In the end I just sat on her bed and we all talked about the various goings on in school while I had a glass of wine & read my book and everything calmed down eventually.

How do you handle tearful emotional outbreaks from your 10-year-old DD particularly when they are completely unreasonable?

(Besides ...)

I don't have an emotional DD, but did have a very emotional DD. I can really relate to what you said about trying to make things better. However, I found out (the hard way) that what worked better is exactly what you did. Listening, just being with and validating his feelings. Trying to problem solve what was wrong upset him further because he didn't really understand what was wrong himself. Look after yourself as it is very emotionally draining

I WAS the emotional DD. You don't need to fix it, just listen and validate.
30 years later and my memories of my mum doing just that are still comforting

Sorry, I meant to say I had an emotional DS, not DD

Thank you both!