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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 6-year-old complains, and melts down, and refuses things he ought to like. He spent most of Halloween night face down on someone's lawn because he was unhappy about something that had happened with his brother.

My other three children are nothing like this. He has an older brother (8) and two younger siblings (5 and 3).

Special events, excitement, parties, new people, etc. give him anxiety, and this is how it comes out. Aside from never going anywhere, or always leaving, our only real option is to hope it doesn't happen and ignore as much of it as we can. If he is truly ruining the event, we leave.

I don't know if this is your nephew's problem, but "bratty" behavior that seems completely ridiculous (like being negative about the Escape Room) is exactly what my child with anxiety would do; he feels awful, so he's going to come up with a reason why the activity/people around him/world are making him feel awful.

We have floated the idea of just not going to family events, and then we are told we are being cruel and selfish not to let the relatives see the children. It is literally impossible to control what a child says or puts in his mouth. So we deal.[/quote]

There’s a big difference between 6 and 11. My son complains a lot when we travel. He’s tired. He doesn’t like what we are doing unless he LOVES what we are doing.  We worked hard and consistently to get him to a point where he knows he’s allowed to be miserable, but he isn’t allowed to make everyone else miserable by whining the whole time. Anxiety or not, you still need to work on getting him to express himself in an appropriate way.[/quote]

Agree. My 6 year-old is a bit like PP's 6 year-old and it is anxiety in our case as well.  But I do expect her to be better able to control herself by 11.  She is a lot better now than she was at 3.  [/quote]

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