Originally Posted by waitingforsanity
He started to do the big crocodile tears and was almost hyperventilating type cry when he said to me "I just want [child] and [other child] to like me! Why don't they like me? I try to get them to play with me and they won't and that makes me mad."

Does that sound like the root of the problem to anyone else? It did to me. It triggered a huge emotional reaction and that is what our current gifted psych said to look for.

This certainly sounds like an excellent place to start.