My 5 year old DD tantrums

[Raritypony]

Hi guys,

Wondering if this is normal or not and if you have any tips on how i can help her.
I have a 5 year old DD she's an only child. She's a great kid funny, sweet, smart, creative and (mostly) well behaved.
The only thing is, she has occasional emotional outbursts in a way thats is disproportionate to the event.
Its not a daily occurance like could happen maybe every couple of weeks maybe.
With every day battles (bed, bath, stop playing with friends and come in for dinner etc) she might grumble but mostly gets over it quite quickly but every so often something will upset her and she will throw herself onto the floor and cry until her throat hurts. During these episodes she will scream at me and her DF and she needs quite a lot of support to get through it. It usually only happens at home and has never happened at school however today we were at an event in which there were balloon animals, she queued patiently for ages but when she got her balloon she came over to me and burst into tears it was the "wrong colour pink" I gave her a cuddle and understood her disappointment that shed waitwd a long time and had picked the colour in her mind only to get something that was not exactly what she wanted. she held it together while she was around the other kids but once we got back into the car she began howling crying, screaming while I was driving that she wanted the other colour and sobbed loudly even after we got home for the next 30 mins (if i tried to talk to her she shouted at me) eventually she was ready to take some breaths calmed down and apologised we hugged it out and we added stickers to her "not so perfect" puppy to jazz him up.
If this is normal I'm happy to weather the occasional storm but I'm a first time mam and unsure if I should be concerned about this (I thought tantrums were for toddlers and that we would be over this by now).
She has no developmental delays or any other signs of neurodiversity but she is quite a sensitive kid.

Girls do tend to internalise things more than boys, and ‘let it out’ when they feel safe i.e. with their parents. I would be observing how she relates to other children and keeping an eye on her anxiety levels in general; it might be useful should you decide in future to investigate ND.

I know 3 other 5 and 6 year old girls who can be like this, especially when really tired! I think it can be within the range of normal

Mine is the same! Usually when over tired.

My 5 year old DD is exactly the same! Like PP mentions, usually when she’s over tired.

Thanks guys, she is great with other kids and relates well to them. Can be a little shy sometimes but easily makes friends at the playground/preschool and has a group of friends from our street that knock in for her almost every day.

It's just these really big emotions that I was worried about as I wasn't sure if it was normal. She was definitely tired this evening so that may have played into it. I feel a bit less concerned now, thank you for the feedback

I think it is normal for it to happen occasionally, they are still little after all.

With my kids who were later identified as ND it was happening more like 2-3x a week than once every couple of weeks.

I think that’s a generalisation - it’s not a gender thing