{"id":12879,"date":"2024-09-13T09:03:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T09:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12879"},"modified":"2024-09-13T09:25:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T09:25:50","slug":"how-to-avoid-end-of-day-meltdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12879","title":{"rendered":"How to Avoid End-of-Day Meltdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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But there are ways to avoid them.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been a while since I really fell to pieces at the end of a long day. But I know the feeling, and I instantly recognized it when a colleague with young children told me about a concept called \u201cafter-school restraint collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n

The term, coined by the parenting expert Andrea Loewen Nair, describes the way kids can hold in their feelings all day at school and then release them by melting down at home.<\/p>\n

After-school restraint collapse isn\u2019t a formal diagnosis, but it\u2019s a \u201ccommon phenomenon,\u201d said Rosanna Breaux, an assistant professor of psychology at Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n

Could it be that adults do this, too?<\/p>\n

Absolutely, said Kathryn Humphreys, an associate professor of psychology and human development at Vanderbilt University \u2014 though we\u2019re more likely to be irritable or tense than to throw an all-out tantrum. That said, we might pick a fight with another member of our household, she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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If you regularly melt down after a long day, experts share ways to head off the collapse.<\/p>\n