"Emotional learners" - Serendipity, your description of your daughter sounds a lot like my son. We used to always know when he was in the midst of a learning breakthrough because of the shouting. Once he got past the screaming, he seemed to understand whatever is was, perfectly, permanently and happily. He is now 12yo, and it seems that between gains in experience and maturity or perhaps because the learning is more incremental now for the most part, it happens only rarely now. This seems to be a personality type -- our only other kid is his twin sister, and we have much less learning drama with her. I wish I could offer advice on how to manage this - if anyone else can I'd be interested too - but perhaps there is some comfort in knowing there are others out there. And even though we were at a loss to prevent it, there was also some comfort in realizing that anger equals learning.
Last edited by amylou; 02/14/12 08:03 AM.
