Your child feels in surround sound.
Joy arrives like a flood. Frustration arrives like a storm. A dropped ice cream cone is not a small disappointment. It is the end of the world, right now, at full volume, in the middle of the grocery store.
This is not your child being dramatic, manipulative, or spoiled. The Bard's nervous system runs every emotion at a higher intensity than most. And it comes with less of the built-in braking that helps other kids slow a feeling down before it takes over. Researchers call this emotional dysregulation. You can just call it big feelings that move faster than the tools to hold them.
The same wiring that makes the meltdowns enormous makes the wonder enormous too. The child who falls apart over a sock seam is the same child who weeps at a sunset. The one who loves their dog with their whole body, who feels a story so deeply they have to act it out. You cannot turn down the hard part without turning down the beautiful part. They are the same dial.