From Surviving, to Thriving with a High-Strung Emotional Child

Boldly Being Mom

Congratulations, you have a high-stung emotional child!

Now, for those of us who have a high-strung kid we need no clarification to what that entails (we survive their whirlwinds daily), but for those of you whom don’t live with a small tornado of a child under your roof let me explain.

Webster’s Dictionary defines high-strung as nervous and easily upset.Wonderful synonyms they list include: excitable, agitated, temperamental, sensitive, unstable…you get the jest, right?

High strung people (especially children) are a conundrum of emotion and impulsive responses, generally unable to detect what exactly sets them off, why, or when. Much like a tornado, fits from a high-strung child can land at any moment and wreak havoc on any given trailer park, you can’t always see the storm coming.

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