>>212878873You should keep in mind the kid is a human being, an individual, but lacking the developed brain of an adult. You can't expect a child to be able to reason things out the way you do, you can't expect a child to understand causality the way an adult does or have the impulse control of an adult. You will be frustrated by this fact, but don't take out your frustration on the child. Anger is never going to work for you, but always against you.
Another thing you need to remember is perspective: every moment of the child's life feels like a HUGE part of their life, because they have so little of it. For you, lying on the couch for an hour doing nothing is the blink of an eye. For the child it's an eternity. This also applies to how big of a deal they feel something is. To you, stubbing your toe or biting your tongue is uncomfortable but you can shrug it off, but a child can't, to them this sensation consumes their entire life and they freak out because life is now nothing but pain and it feels like it's never going away. This applies to things they're scared of, too. Every emotion is that much more intense, because it's proportionally a much larger part of their little life.
I don't know if that's helpful or not, I'm bad at articulating this.