It has become my biggest parenting job to help her identify, experience, and then figure out how to deal with this barrage of emotions. Adults don't do it well, how do we expect a kid to do it? But we press on navigating the turgid waters of what we around here like to call the Emotional Hijack. That moment when I have just started to become comfortable in the way things are going and am pretty confident that I know how she will react to something. I am prepared. All bases covered. En Garde. And then....WHAM. KAPOW. BLAM. Emotions are flying at me left and right from the sweet body of my favorite daughter. The Emotional Hijack. Beware... it catches you off guard and can ruin even the best of afternoons at the park.
Here is a pictograph of emotional examples. See Curious George table for reference.
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