So...How long do I let her cry before I move on?

[Sandbox Sally]

BTW - that kid was my FIRST year as an ECE and he seriously had me questioning my career choice ... thankfully that breed is 'unique' never had another like him but it could be that experience that makes every other transitioning babe a BREEZE

Haha yeah I can't imagine how it could get any worse (worse worse worse...hear that echo??) lol

[Inspired by Reggio]

Haha yeah I can't imagine how it could get any worse (worse worse worse...hear that echo??) lol

Yup - also worked three years in a high needs centre where 95% of the children were involved with CAS and the family was in crisis ... generally family violence and abuse .... the children we worked with were out of this world AGGRESSIVE at times working with 3 year olds who had language that would make a sailor blush and who had PTSD and who could escalate to violence where they could pick up a lunch table and throw it across the room - literally had a child throw a fit once because someone 'scared him' and in his tantrum he ripped the SINK off the wall in the bathroom where we had removed him too to keep the OTHERS safe while he 'worked through' it!

So needless to say dealing with NORMAL childhood behaviours like a toddler biting phase or that 15 month old 'hitting' stage is a BREEZE in comparison and generally easy to 'resolve' in comparison to helping THOSE children find the skills and strategies to work through what they had been exposed to and find PEACE in life!

Sometimes I listen to clients complain about their kids tantrums because they do not want to go to bed and think WOW you have never SEEN a true tantrum - that is a piece of cake what your kid is doing there - ignore it and it will pass in a couple minutes .... some of the kids I worked with it took upwards of 30 minutes to an HOUR for them to regain control they had to work through all the stages of 'grief' in that moment from anger, denial, negotiation which often set them back to ANGER and so forth to get the point where you could actually RESOLVE the initial issue ... it was SCARY some days!