Sometimes, a child will say “oh, that’s a huge problem! I’ve had that happen!” This is often because it’s something they are struggling to manage their emotion with and their emotion is super strong. If you know it is actually not a huge problem, it is helpful to frame the situation with guiding questions such as “well, let’s see, a huge problem results in having to go to the hospital or something that can never ever be fixed. Is that true of this problem? How?”
Occasionally, you may have to end the conversation with “I know it feels huge to you but when we compared it to other big problems we knew, it actually wasn’t a big problem. It’s a small or medium problem and people in the world fix that problem in this way…… Then follow that up with: So, now you tell me, when this problem happens, how do most people in the world fix it?”