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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 542945" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>To be honest: It's foolish to expect consistency in any child age five. Or even ten or fifteen. Kids are bound to have better and worse days, in fact most of the adults have 'cranky days' as well. Kids have more. And very small things set even total PCs off. Too cold, too warm, tired, hungry, thirsty, too excited, drained, whatever and that's enough. And in many ways our difficult children are just typical kids raised to the 10th power. More immature, showing behaviours typical for younger kids than their chronological age and showing them more and more intense way.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying J would be typical and 'he will grow out of it', even though he probably will grow out many of his current issues, he just will find new ways to be not typical in the progress, but at times the solution for difficult days can be simple. And at times there is nothing you can do to make him comfortable and you just have to bear it. Enjoy the good days, be glad he actually has those skills, even if he can't consistently use them yet, it is awesome he does have them. When he matures, he is likely to be able to use them more often and it will get better (at least that is what I'm telling myself, because my difficult child is kind of in the same situation as J as odd as it sounds. He has some new-found awesome skills he is able to use at times, but not yet consistently, and I'm hoping that over time he will be able to use them much more often and constant manner.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 542945, member: 14557"] To be honest: It's foolish to expect consistency in any child age five. Or even ten or fifteen. Kids are bound to have better and worse days, in fact most of the adults have 'cranky days' as well. Kids have more. And very small things set even total PCs off. Too cold, too warm, tired, hungry, thirsty, too excited, drained, whatever and that's enough. And in many ways our difficult children are just typical kids raised to the 10th power. More immature, showing behaviours typical for younger kids than their chronological age and showing them more and more intense way. I'm not saying J would be typical and 'he will grow out of it', even though he probably will grow out many of his current issues, he just will find new ways to be not typical in the progress, but at times the solution for difficult days can be simple. And at times there is nothing you can do to make him comfortable and you just have to bear it. Enjoy the good days, be glad he actually has those skills, even if he can't consistently use them yet, it is awesome he does have them. When he matures, he is likely to be able to use them more often and it will get better (at least that is what I'm telling myself, because my difficult child is kind of in the same situation as J as odd as it sounds. He has some new-found awesome skills he is able to use at times, but not yet consistently, and I'm hoping that over time he will be able to use them much more often and constant manner.) [/QUOTE]
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