HELP ME! How do I handle my emotional 5 year old?

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[laceandribbonsviolin]

I try to do the reflecting thing but she often interrupts or screams over me before I can get the idea across.
Maybe she struggling because she has big emotions and doesn’t know how to express them, not because she’s trying to take her anger out on me.
It’s really hard to tell. She’s 6 and she’s just now within the past 2 weeks staying dry, so it took her a long time to master that. She used to be defiant when I reminded her or told her to go to the bathroom and about a 6 months to a year ago she finally listened and decided she was tired of cleaning up the messes. I had to let her figure it out on her own, but I can’t let her figure this out on her own, or can I? Some days it’s so bad that I tell her to be angry in her room, and apparently feels like she’s being abandoned, and won’t stay in her room (her door opens inward, so I can’t stand there to hold it closed like I’ve seen Super Nanny do). So when she doesn’t get her angry energy out in her room and comes out screaming, I take my 9 year old into my room and close the door. It’s not what I want to happen, but if I’m helping her solve her problem and she is screaming over me there’s not much I can do until she stops screaming. When she’s calm we talk about that, and she understands that, but then doesn’t remember what she learned yesterday, and the cycle continues.
She may have ADHD or autism, but I’m not sure.
Now I do want to buy that book Say What You See, and keep watching more of your videos. Thank you!

[sarahk]

Shocked this actually worked. I’ve tried similar things, to no avail. Thank you!

[mrschristo]

What do you do if you do that and they get angry with you

[raragreenbow]

When i try this with my 5year old boy he screams at me to stop talking or to go away….

[jesanearaneta]

Can you please help me. My 5 year old daughter thinks that she doesnt belong to God because she thinks evil things, like kill, crazy, and stupid. Can you please give me some advise how to deal with it and how to stop her.

I came here with really high hopes and I while I do believe this method May work on kids who have a very strong vocabulary my speech delayed son can only express himself but throwing a massive tantrum. Now that he almost 5 he thinks the only way to get things done is buy crying his eyeballs out, so I increased the number of timeouts. Everytime he even attempts to scream his way out, I give him a verbal warning and if he doesn’t stop he goes in time out. It’s only been 3 days since I started doing this and he’s already started getting the idea… 😂 mama is in 0 tolerance mode.
For effective timeout methods watch one of supernannys videos.

[Faith]

Even 7 year olds can be really sensitive. Its just part of their age.

[administartoritprofessiona]

Hi,
My son is a 5 year and half. He has mild ADHD. He going to school. But he starts crying and shouting when teacher says he not to do anything or behave. Please help

[stateof]

It didn’t work she starts taunting and mimicking in a tiny voice😢now what? Please help.

[ozzy]

My 5 year old son never listened, and like today after pool, he kept saying his ear hurts. My wife and I tried to help him, but he was running away from us very frustrated.

[Averybean]

I’ve been doing this and it doesn’t work. She gets over whelmed and spirals even more. I never had a toddler that threw tantrums. I had the most well behaved toddler. As soon as my daughter hit 4 she was throwing tantrums and getting overly emotional. She’s now five and still the same. The only thing I can say is she has way too much screen time these days and her diet has a lot of sugars in it. That will end today. I just find it odd that she was able to regulate emotions better and listen better at the ages where they typically don’t (1-3years) and now at 5 I feel like I have a toddler. It’s very frustrating and sometimes embarrassing. I feel bad for saying it but it is.

[lisahh]

Right off the bat she starts talking to the adult who’s question she’s answering like she’s a child. That’s a little condescending and annoying

[shirleyupvall]

If you handled the bad behavior from the start it would not have grown. Just don't allow the whining and fits, go to your room and do that, I don't want to hear it