teaching her words for her feelings might have been the most important: i reminded her what the word “overwhelmed” meant.
we spent that night’s bedtime role playing situations to use the word overwhelmed. we sometimes do this kind of role-play at bedtime before nighttime books. she is still at the age where she loves it so i am soaking it in.
we talked about how our ears can get overwhelmed by noise that’s too loud or too many noises at once. our body can get overwhelmed if we are squished or too hot. we can feel overwhelmed when there are too many voices trying to talk to us.
i whispered back asking if 