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My son has recently been very prone to meltdowns in public places. Does anyone have any advice or tips that they have found at work for how to handle these? I’m a single mom and get very overwhelmed and I start to shut down recently so any tips because obviously reasoning with him doesn’t work when he’s mid meltdown. A lot of his meltdowns come from not wanting to leave places like parks and museums when it’s time to go that’s the biggest Karpoori I’ve found so far.

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my girl also gets very upset leaving parks etc and has meltdowns. we give her a 10 and 5 minute warning and then tell her it’s time to go and tell her that we can go back soon since she had so much fun but that it’s time to go now. if she starts crying i ask her if she’s sad because we need to leave and she usually will respond with yes through her tears. then i ask her if she wants a hug and that usually fixes it. finally i’ll tell her that when she gets home we are going to play with x or that she gets an treat because she played so well at the playground with all the other kids there. she loves ice pops and tractor wheel cookies so we’ll ask her if she wants a pop or a cookie. having a conversation through her tears after we validate how she is feeling usually distracts her pretty well and then she focuses on other things like toys or treats at home that she’s going to play with/ get when we are home.

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