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<blockquote data-quote="janique" data-source="post: 406854" data-attributes="member: 11155"><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/twister2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":twister2:" title="twister2 :twister2:" data-shortname=":twister2:" />We adopted a 2 (now 3 year old). Things with him were not normal, but we kept thinking that he was this way because of his past. A year later, my life has become so impossible that I wonder if I can through another second of the day. I've never seen a child so aggressive and so demanding and so ..... determined. My husband said, "I don't can't figure out how come I have to come home from work because you can't handle a 2 year old!" I was devistated by his statement and just kept thinking I needed to try harder, be more of everything to this child. Now I am at the point of hitting the wall. I sat down with a counselor and just poured out my heart and my daily experience with my son. The fighting and hitting and screaming from the moment he wakes up until he goes to bed. The fact that I can't even run a simple errand to the store because he is so out of control. For the first time, the counselor said she understood. We worked together and got a child psychiatrist involved. He has Conduct Disorder, non specified at the time. They gave me medication because his behaviors were so constant and extreme. I haven't started the mediccation yet as it frightens me to put a 3 year old on psychiotics. But I need help. I need to find some support. I need to find some answers. I need suggestions on how to help teach him to control himself. I need wisdom. I need courage. Anyone out there able to help? Anyone want to help walk me through this so that I can give this little boy the best chance at a normal and functional life -- and still stay sane myself. What are you all doing to find support? I find I've very isolated, because of my son's behavior - my friends simply don't get it and how bad it is. I would love input, and direction, goals, motivation, help . . . . Have any of you ever found local support groups? Does anyone know if they exist or how I would find them?</p><p></p><p>Pleasing ---- Janique</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="janique, post: 406854, member: 11155"] :twister2:We adopted a 2 (now 3 year old). Things with him were not normal, but we kept thinking that he was this way because of his past. A year later, my life has become so impossible that I wonder if I can through another second of the day. I've never seen a child so aggressive and so demanding and so ..... determined. My husband said, "I don't can't figure out how come I have to come home from work because you can't handle a 2 year old!" I was devistated by his statement and just kept thinking I needed to try harder, be more of everything to this child. Now I am at the point of hitting the wall. I sat down with a counselor and just poured out my heart and my daily experience with my son. The fighting and hitting and screaming from the moment he wakes up until he goes to bed. The fact that I can't even run a simple errand to the store because he is so out of control. For the first time, the counselor said she understood. We worked together and got a child psychiatrist involved. He has Conduct Disorder, non specified at the time. They gave me medication because his behaviors were so constant and extreme. I haven't started the mediccation yet as it frightens me to put a 3 year old on psychiotics. But I need help. I need to find some support. I need to find some answers. I need suggestions on how to help teach him to control himself. I need wisdom. I need courage. Anyone out there able to help? Anyone want to help walk me through this so that I can give this little boy the best chance at a normal and functional life -- and still stay sane myself. What are you all doing to find support? I find I've very isolated, because of my son's behavior - my friends simply don't get it and how bad it is. I would love input, and direction, goals, motivation, help . . . . Have any of you ever found local support groups? Does anyone know if they exist or how I would find them? Pleasing ---- Janique [/QUOTE]
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