Sometimes I am so busy being a parent, I forget I’m a child psychologist. This has been especially true lately in this current pandemic. Stress at home runs high and I routinely witness the impact of that stress unfold right before my eyes with my own two children. Just this week, my 4-year-old was on his 5th consecutive day of throwing a tantrum for an unidentified reason. At night, I would review the day trying to understand the triggers so we could circumvent a repeated emotional explosion the next day. I asked him over and over to put into words what was bothering him and I was met with an escalation of emotion each time. I would “guess” his frustration, thinking it had something to do with the changes in our lives since CoVid-19, but each attempt was off the mark.
