This morning at 7 am, my 3-year-old melted down when I apologetically told her I didn’t have any more of her favorite frozen waffles for her breakfast.
She immediately ran from the kitchen into the hallway and flung herself onto the wooden floor, pajama’d legs kicking in protest, fists bunched up, braids framing her red, distraught face and she screamed at me, “That’s not fair!
That’s NOT fair!” She had experienced something so upsetting that her toddler emotional regulation system (still in its early days of development) simply could not handle.
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