I am sorry that she had the knuckle incident. It is heart breaking when kids get an idea in their heads that is so hurtful. Hugs to you.
We had lots and lots of similar outbursts from DD8 last year and the year before. We discovered that she was much worse when either she was being picked on by kids at school for being so smart, or when she had had enough of pretending to know as little as they did about her passionate subjects.
She actually told us recently that she was so happy this year that she didn't have to deal with the "What are you talking abouts" (The constant question she got from friends at school when she started talking about things that she knew so much about than they did.)
We worked on lots of hugs and positive comments to help increase her self esteem.
Now if we could get DD3 (almost 4) to quit her addiction to attention - both positive and negative.....I'm going to look up that book.
