When your child is young it's fairly common to have an unexpected outburst or as I call them a meltdown I remember a time I was in one of those superstores. We were in the grocery aisle and the meltdown was gaining momentum and speed and intensity and I finally just said here

please sit here and I set the child next to the paper towels and I just

walked down down to the end of the aisle and around the corner. I could still hear

him crying and making his scene but I wasn't going to be the energy behind it

anymore I was not going to be the fuel for the fire and I I was over the point of

caring what anybody might think of me. So maybe you've been there, crying can be

normal. Temper tantrums do happen. It might be something as simple as feed the

child, but it may be pointing to something deeper.

I'm John Fuller here in the studio with Dr. Danny Werther.

He's in charge of our parenting and youth department here at Focus on the Family.

And let's go back to a conversation Jim Daly and I had with Josh and Christy Straub on a previous

episode they shared about a time they helped their son through a difficulty

and here they talk about working through a different kind of circumstance with

their daughter.

Christie, in fact, you had an interesting experience, I think, with your daughter Kennedy,

who went through a phase of crying all the time.

Crying can really be one of the most trigger evoking moments and I as adults we just

don't manage crying of children very well I see it on airplanes all the time. You know you get this

little mom traveling by herself with maybe a little baby and she's pregnant I

mean your heart should go out for her you should help her put her stuff up and all

that I try to do that. In fact, not long ago I was walking down the gangplank at Denver Airport and this poor woman was struggling, this young woman. And I said, can I just hold your baby why you get everything organized?

She's at the end right before she gets in the door of the plane.

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