February 13 - Monday Meltdown

Today Aidan had an epic meltdown at dinner time.  He was tired, he told me as much on the way home from school when he appeared to be in a good mood.  When we got home, he wanted to play outside for a few minutes for dinner,all good.  Then he comes in and sits down to write a few Valentine's Day cards and gets really frustrated saying he doesn't know how to write his name (which he does) and he got upset with himself.  I told him it was okay that he can try again after supper and if he's too tired, not to worry, I'll help him finish them.  Okay, that's good.  Then dinner gets to the table, spaghetti and the first attempt to twirl his spaghetti didn't work and that erupted into a major meltdown.  He was so frustrated, but didn't want any help and he ended up just sitting and crying, a very pathetic sad cry.  We let him go for a few minutes and then finally he just came and sat on my lap and cried some more.  At this point he was as hungry as he was tired, bad combination.  A few minutes later, he finally settled down and ate the entire meal plus a bit more and was happy again.  Holy geez, I'm glad we don't get those type of meltdowns very often!