Local Woman Nominated for Bravery Award After Gentle Parenting Road Rager at Miranda's Five Ways Intersection

Sandy Shores | Editor-in-Chief | Sutherland Shire Gazette

21 July 2025

MIRANDA - A Sylvania woman has been hailed a hero after deploying advanced gentle parenting techniques on a full-grown man having a Category 5 tantrum at the notoriously unhinged Five Ways intersection earlier today.

Witnesses say the incident began when an "emotionally unregulated" driver missed his chance to head north onto Port Hacking Road, then erupted into a primal scream fest, complete with horn abuse and performative steering wheel thumping.

Enter 38-year-old local mum and part-time occupational therapist, Cassie Jensen, who calmly stepped out of her CX-3 and approached the red-faced rage machine as though he were a dysregulated toddler mid-supermarket meltdown.

“I got down to his eye level and said, ‘It’s okay to feel frustrated, but it’s not okay to honk our feelings,’” Cassie said, while handing him a packet of organic rice crackers and reminding him to take a deep breath “all the way to his belly.”

Before leaving, Cassie gently recommended he try “five-finger breathing” next time - “trace each finger as you breathe in and out. It’s what we do at home when someone loses it over the wrong-coloured dinner plate.”

The man reportedly blinked in confusion, muttered something about his cousin’s wedding in Caringbah, then quietly drove away - still fuming, but noticeably less shouty.

Traffic came to a brief standstill as stunned onlookers applauded.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” said one witness. “She basically Bluey’d a grown man out of a nervous breakdown.”

Local authorities have confirmed Cassie’s nomination for the Local Heroes Award, citing “extraordinary calm, motherly wizardry, and bravery in the face of peak Miranda chaos.”

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