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Every child falls apart. What changes from one to the next is the weather: how fast it comes in, how loud it gets, how long it stays and what brings the sky back. Here is that weather, read one sign at a time.

Big Feelings The child who goes quiet Not every big feeling is loud. Some children stop talking, turn away and go somewhere inside themselves when the day gets too muc... Big Feelings Sharing and the fixed signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius are the holders of the zodiac. Each finds sharing hard for its own reason, because each is hold... Big Feelings Afraid of the dark: what the fear is for each sign The dark is the same for every child. What it takes away is not. For one child it takes the person, for another the shape of the... Big Feelings After nursery for an earth sign child Earth carries a nursery day in the body and in its sense of order. Taurus needs the usual steps home, Virgo needs to put the day'... Big Feelings After nursery for an air sign child Air processes a day by putting it into words, or by needing a break from words entirely. After nursery, Gemini may talk without p... Big Feelings After nursery for a fire sign child Fire spends itself in a day of new people and shared toys. What arrives at the gate is what is left: a spark of temper, a hunger... Big Feelings After nursery for a water sign child Collection is not always the end of a nursery day. For a water sign child, the journey home can be the moment when the feelings h... Big Feelings How each sign comes back A big feeling has an entrance, a peak and a return. The return is where many adults accidentally restart the storm. Each sign com... Big Feelings The apology each sign can hear Sorry is a beginning, not a shape. One child needs the broken thing restored, another needs the truth named, and another needs ro... Big Feelings The way each sign asks to be seen Children do not all ask for attention by calling attention to themselves. One brings a drawing, another brings a question, anothe... Big Feelings Four kinds of weather Advice about tantrums almost always assumes one kind: loud, sudden, over in ten minutes. Anyone with two children knows there are... Big Feelings Five kinds of comfort, and who needs which Most of us comfort a child the way we like to be comforted, which works beautifully about a third of the time. Here are the five...

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If you would rather read the whole temperament than the single hour, these are the signs this room talks about most.

Aries around 21 March to 19 April Fire Cardinal Taurus around 20 April to 20 May Earth Fixed Gemini around 21 May to 20 June Air Mutable Cancer around 21 June to 22 July Water Cardinal

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