After School Meltdowns
I periodically ask for ideas that people would like me to write about, and this is one that came up a while ago – “after school restraint collapse”. This is a really common phenomenon. Children go to school all day, hold it together, then get home and lose the plot. It can be emotional breakdowns with tears, it may be anger or rage, and typically it will be the smallest thing, maybe something irrational, that sets them off – the …