So when we're looking at emotional intelligence and emotional health and well being,

what we're looking at is the ability to feel and experience all emotions.

And that doesn't mean that we only ever have happy content calm kids that they're going to if

we're looking at having an emotionally healthy child they're going to experience a range of

emotions just like we will experience a range of emotions.

Welcome back everyone to the show. We are fast approaching the holidays but October is actually a very big month in our lives because some cultural

holidays and then it's Halloween my birthday and work and routine in between and

over the weekend I had plans to take my son Ryan to an event called Gerba.

We are currently celebrating Navratri, which stands for nine nights,

where we celebrate the feminine energy for a goddess in our religion.

And there's a lot of fun and dancing and light and energy.

Well, the morning of the event, Ryan wasn't feeling very positive

and high energy.

He woke up and everything that normally didn't set him off did.

He had huge, huge meltdowns that he didn't have before

and they kept rolling from one to another.

And have you been there before?

Like, one meltdown would end, and then 10 minutes later,

another one, and another one, and another one.

It felt like we were walking on eggshells.

I even at one point turned to my husband

and said, if he keeps acting like this I can't take him to the event and it was a later event after his bedtime and I couldn't imagine handling meltdowns there after a day of this. I also noticed that I was extremely

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