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My interpretation is this:


The sleepover at school was new and different. It required a huge amount of control for difficult child to "keep it together". He was still stressed and excited on the drive home (hence the unusual chattiness).


He made it home. He began to relax. And ALL the pent-up stress of the day began bubbling up inside of him. It was going to come out - one way or another.


Does anyone really think it makes one whit of difference what show was on the television? And had the tv not been on at all - it would have been explained as something else. "The radio was too loud" or "The room was too hot" or "There's too many people in here" or whatever...


I think difficult child needs a way to "vent" that stress and energy before it comes out as a tantrum.


Is there something active he could do as part of a relaxation method after such a stressful day? Talk a long walk - pound a drum - something like that?


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