'Couldn’t really pinpoint what the hell had happened with him'
I always say that second grade was the hardest year of my childhood. It was partly circumstantial: my parents were divorcing and I was adjusting to a new school. But other difficult things had happened before and after that year — it was just that I had the hardest time processing it all then.I remember lying awake at night in second grade, obsessively worrying about that time I had traded Garbage Pail kids on the playground weeks prior.
He’s come home from school sometimes and just cry. On his worst days, he’d scream and throw stuff, for almost no reason whatsoever. It was like he’d morphed into a, but he was eight years old! I swear, there were a couple of months where I really didn’t know what do to with him and I seriously thought something must be wrong.
, remembering somewhere in the back of my mind that my second grade moodiness seemed to coincide with a growth spurt as well.But it turns out it was likely more than that. Check this out: There’s a bodily change called “adrenarche” that all kids go through between the ages of 6-8 years old. It’s a hormonal change that sets the stage for puberty a few years down the road.
Unlike puberty, adrenarche doesn’t have many external signs, so what you usually notice in your kid is moodiness and a general inability to process emotions.
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