Re: my daughter is driving me crazy - Tonya

[Guest guest]

Hey Tonya!!

If you get a good answer to this one, please let me know!! is

behaving in much the same manner. He's just a little over 3 and 1/2. Within

the last couple of months he's started whining, throwing himself on the

floor, throwing tantrums, and pouting like he's NEVER done before. He's also

gotten more aggressive again. These behaviors had lessened while he was in

school last year, but they seem to be coming back as bad, if not worse, then

before! He's been hitting, pinching, pushing, kicking, and worse of all,

BITING again!! It's driving me nuts!!

We mostly use a time-out, and try to be very consistent with it. He has a

Rubbermaid stool that he has to sit on until he's ready to be " nice " . Then

he has to apologize to the offended person before he can go and play again.

But that apology doesn't help very much when he's bitten his 5 yr old cousin

in the tummy, and then laughed when she screamed!!

Any ideas anyone???

Pat (g-ma to , RSS, 3 yrs 8 months old (on the 21st), 24.5#, 34 " ,

G-tube, GHT)

[Guest guest]

Does time out seem to help. The thing with time out is it doesn't seem to bother

aubrey or on the occasion it does i have to hold her in the time out area

(mostly the corner) while she's kicking screaming and hitting me. as soon as

it's over though she goes right back to doing whatever it was she got in trouble

for you. and when you call her name and tell her no, she doesn't even seem to

acknowledge it. i'm just at my wit's end with her right now.

tonya

pcpets wrote:

Hey Tonya!!

If you get a good answer to this one, please let me know!! is

behaving in much the same manner. He's just a little over 3 and 1/2. Within

the last couple of months he's started whining, throwing himself on the

floor, throwing tantrums, and pouting like he's NEVER done before. He's also

gotten more aggressive again. These behaviors had lessened while he was in

school last year, but they seem to be coming back as bad, if not worse, then

before! He's been hitting, pinching, pushing, kicking, and worse of all,

BITING again!! It's driving me nuts!!

We mostly use a time-out, and try to be very consistent with it. He has a

Rubbermaid stool that he has to sit on until he's ready to be " nice " . Then

he has to apologize to the offended person before he can go and play again.

But that apology doesn't help very much when he's bitten his 5 yr old cousin

in the tummy, and then laughed when she screamed!!

Any ideas anyone???

Pat (g-ma to , RSS, 3 yrs 8 months old (on the 21st), 24.5#, 34 " ,

G-tube, GHT)

[Guest guest]

Well, Tonya.... We were told that " time-out " doesn't count until the child

sits quietly for the number of minutes they are old. So, in Bran's case,

that's 3 minutes, on the stool without being held there. And yes, it does

seem to help as long as he has to sit each and every time he gets aggressive

with someone. Miss a couple of times and it seems like we're back to square

one.

The one thing that doesn't seem to work with him, is doing back to him

whatever he's done to someone else. If he hits Aidan (his 5 yr old cousin)

and she hits him back, he just seems to up the ante, and either kicks or

bites her!! The Ped told us to let the two of them work it out, but poor

Aidan is getting the heck beat out of her, so we had to stop that.

The other thing that seems to work is taking away something he loves... i.e.

cartoons, certain toys, video games etc... or we stop whatever we were

playing that caused the aggressive behavior and refuse to play that game for

a while.

Wish I had the magic bullet, but it seems to be different which every child.

Pat (g-ma to , RSS, 3 yrs 8 months old (on the 21st), 24.5#, 34 " ,

G-tube, GHT)

[Guest guest]

Emerence is 2.5 and when I put her in time out and tell her she needs

to apologize to xyz person, she says she likes it and is staying.

AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

, mom to 5 and Emerence 2.5 going on 13....

> Hey Tonya!!

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> If you get a good answer to this one, please let me know!!

is

> behaving in much the same manner. He's just a little over 3 and

1/2. Within

> the last couple of months he's started whining, throwing himself on

the

> floor, throwing tantrums, and pouting like he's NEVER done before.

He's also

> gotten more aggressive again. These behaviors had lessened while he

was in

> school last year, but they seem to be coming back as bad, if not

worse, then

> before! He's been hitting, pinching, pushing, kicking, and worse of

all,

> BITING again!! It's driving me nuts!!

>

> We mostly use a time-out, and try to be very consistent with it. He

has a

> Rubbermaid stool that he has to sit on until he's ready to

be " nice " . Then

> he has to apologize to the offended person before he can go and

play again.

> But that apology doesn't help very much when he's bitten his 5 yr

old cousin

> in the tummy, and then laughed when she screamed!!

>

> Any ideas anyone???

> Pat (g-ma to , RSS, 3 yrs 8 months old (on the 21st), 24.5#,

34 " ,

> G-tube, GHT)

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