V sensitive 5yr old. Can't listen to sad music or films.

[Pumpkin86]

Can anyone help me please?

Hi. My daughter is currently 5 1/2 years old in year 1.

We recently had parents evening and the teacher raised concerns of how emotional/sensitive our daughter is.

She has always been very sensitive. For example we can't listen to any songs that sound 'sad' or have a slow tempo as it will upset her. She doesn't like any disney films as they always have sad parts in them and she also doesn't like seeing anyone do anything bad on TV like misbehaving or making someone upset. She will get herself into such a state.
( films/songs such as Stick man, tangled, rock a by baby song- as the baby falls out, sometimes even twinkle twinkle little star makes her cry)

We have tried coaching her through these times and explain that the feelings she's having are OK, music is made to make you feel emotion etc.

We have got her to do focused breathing and also reminded her that films aren't real etc.

Her teacher is saying that they now can't watch certain things in school or listen to certain songs as it will trigger her. She wasn't saying it was a bad thing but seemed concerned. I'm really not sure what to do about it.
Does anyone have any advice?
Many thanks

Mine was similar. Even now as a late teen refuses to watch Cinderella because it's tooooooooo sad. In fact most of the Disney films were a no no as was How to Tame your Dragon and loads more. It's not improved much now, lots of fast forwarding through sad bits if they can be made to watch the rest of the film.
For their SATS they had to analyse a poem about death and they ended up in tears during the test. (still passed!)
The book Wonder - a set text - was something of a nightmare as it was an emotional rollercoaster.
At secondary had to come out of a couple of lessons because of the film that was being shown in their RE lesson was too upsetting.
They just have more empathy I guess.
We didn't encourage the sobbing exactly but we did encourage them to talk about what they were feeling and the mechanism of the story arc and how it was deliberate on the part of the writer (age appropriate!). They are now doing film studies at A Level. It's just accepted that there will be tears :-) They are good at silent sobbing so not too intrusive:-) At Primary they had a pass to either sit outside for the sad bit or could wear head phones at certain points. But largely it was ignored at primary as these high emotional points are relatively few. And it did get better as they got older. They also got really good at saying I can't watch this/can't read this etc. Most of the time they did give it a go in school. At home/out socially they were much more opinionated and definite in what they would/wouldn't participated in.

It did mean that we didn't have to sit through Tangled 27 times in a row.