[Geomamma]

I have to comment on something which floored me over the weekend.

DD is extremely impulsive and once she is “set off“ she is almost impossible to bring back down. Well, on the weekend, she got in trouble for something --- hitting or kicking or something like that --- so she was taken to her room to chill out and think about it. She went through her usual rage - throwing things at the door, stomping, screaming so loud her voice got hoarse. After a while she quieted down, but I was not ready to go talk to her yet so I left her for a while. Well, she was so quiet I sort of forgot about her (ssh, LOL). I went up about 15 minutes later and she wasn't in her room. I walked down the hall and she was curled up in the baby's bed under his blanket, eyes closed, glasses off. I said “What are you doing?“ and she said “I wanted to come in here and lay down. Sometimes laying down to rest helps me to calm down when I'm upset. I like Iain's room, it makes me happy“.

I started tearing up because she NEVER shows that kind of self awareness. And granted, this was *after* the rage, but she knew enough to know that she had to calm down. I was so flipping proud of her at that moment.