OH, sweet mama, I love this one. It's such a good teaching to be free to just express our emotions and let out anything holding us back or clogging us up.
My number three was also my game changer. Especially because I had 10 years between the second and third, I was pretty sure I had this Parenting thing wired. My older two kids are quite different from each other but both are really amazingly beautiful people, and they were 10 and 13 at the time of Solomon's birth. Well, I got humbled pretty quickly. He is a firecracker! He is powerful and vibrant and such a lover and also quick to temper and super duper testosteroned. I have learned a whole new set of skills. He also periodically just needs to scream. He's 5, so it's way less frequent, but he periodically gets overfilled. Sometimes I hold him. Other times I let him run off and manage it on his own. In between we talk about other ways to move that energy that will feel less stressful.