FlowingLove (Daniel Siegel) suggests that sometimes young clowns express frustrations in ways that don’t make sense and that may even be challenging to parents, and suggests the strategy of “connect and redirect”.
This strategy involves first connecting with the young clown in a calm nurturing manner, maybe hugging and maybe soothing verbal statements.
After the young clown calms down and starts explaining the frustration the parent can begin dealing with the stuff the young clown is frustrated about.