adhoc,
My little boy was a lot like yours at the same age. It was rough. Hang in there. Giving a child emotional intelligence (EQ) is a gift they carry through their whole life (and one that does more for them than their IQ).
I'll agree with this. I'm pretty sure I have a negative EQ, which causes me all sorts of problems.
I'm slowly coming to the realization that there is an entire emotional management skillset that it's best to develop in children early in life. I think when you have intense children, they need extra help in managing the intensity. The intensity has to go somewhere, and when there is nothing productive to do with it, and you're a child who's already upset and getting more upset by the minute...
I still deal with massive scream-a-thons at age 6 with my son, fortunately, most of them are at home rather than in public. Public presentations result in us leaving the public area.
