Is your child hard to understand? Do you get responses that you don’t expect, or you find yourself wondering what triggered that reaction? Struggling children live in a world dominated by feelings of sadness, fear and hopelessness. For adults to help these children understand and manage these overwhelming emotions, we first need to understand the child. Take a few minutes and enter into the emotional world of a troubled child by reading this article, it may just help you to better help the child. (5 pages)