HopeRemains
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difficult child has stopped some of his behaviors since he was small, or decreased the intensity of them (which have been replaced with other behaviors along the way). One of them is that when he was a toddler until about age 6, he couldn't be left in a room by himself, or he would break whatever he could, just destructive. I had actually forgotten about this because it's been so long since he's done it.
He gets up extremely early, sometimes 5am, sometimes 3am! This used to be a problem, but since he'd outgrown (or so we thought) this issue of destructiveness, we haven't had to make sure to be up with him on weekends. He will put in a movie or play video games until we get up around 7:30-8.
This past weekend, however, we found that he had taken his brothers favorite toy knife and put many large holes in the window screen, then broke the knife and threw it away. Yesterday when I came out, I found he had spilled a bowl of cereal all over my desk (he did attempt to clean it up, but he's not supposed to eat in the living room and it got all over my laptop and everything else on the desk). He also broke the remote control (which he had to intentionally do, considering how it was broken).
Does anyone have any insight on this behavior, and has anyone had their child revert back to past behaviors?
He gets up extremely early, sometimes 5am, sometimes 3am! This used to be a problem, but since he'd outgrown (or so we thought) this issue of destructiveness, we haven't had to make sure to be up with him on weekends. He will put in a movie or play video games until we get up around 7:30-8.
This past weekend, however, we found that he had taken his brothers favorite toy knife and put many large holes in the window screen, then broke the knife and threw it away. Yesterday when I came out, I found he had spilled a bowl of cereal all over my desk (he did attempt to clean it up, but he's not supposed to eat in the living room and it got all over my laptop and everything else on the desk). He also broke the remote control (which he had to intentionally do, considering how it was broken).
Does anyone have any insight on this behavior, and has anyone had their child revert back to past behaviors?