How to help your child with big emotions without shutting them down Childhood messages that can follow us into adulthood Have you ever heard yourself say “Oh, don’t cry” when your child is upset? I think most of us probably have. It comes from a good place. We see a child we love crying and our natural reaction is to want to make everything better. “Don’t cry.” “Stop crying.” “Why are you crying?” They seem like such harmless words, don’t they? I heard them a lot when I was g