So the latest struggle with difficult child... He's insatiable--nothing is ever enough.
Given 3 cookies, he wants five. He will have a full-blown tantrum over this and usually ends up with none.
If he is given a snack because he says he's hungry, he will want more and more until he is told no and then has a tantrum.
When transitioning, he is given all the warnings about how in ten minutes we'll be leaving, we need to be getting home because , etc... but leaving still results in a tantrum. He'll beg for 10 more minutes and if you give it to him you will just start the cycle over again.
Bedtime is the same struggle and this is new; it used to be fairly easy.
Tonight at 7:45 (bedtime is 8:00), he was watching Monsters Inc. It wouldn't be over until 9:00. So I set up the dvd player and tv in his room so he could watch the movie on dvd. Since he started the dvd from the beginning, it wasn't over until 10:00. He then said he wanted to watch another movie. I pointed out that it was past his bedtime and you guessed it, a temper tantrum. This time it was pretty violent with kicking and flailing and him threatening to throw me down the stairs. This is the thanks I get for trying to avoid the bedtime tantrum!
He is constantly demanding things and threatening us when he doesn't get them.
Reasoning with him doesn't seem to work and I am feeling worn down.
Thanks for letting me whine.
Christy
Given 3 cookies, he wants five. He will have a full-blown tantrum over this and usually ends up with none.
If he is given a snack because he says he's hungry, he will want more and more until he is told no and then has a tantrum.
When transitioning, he is given all the warnings about how in ten minutes we'll be leaving, we need to be getting home because , etc... but leaving still results in a tantrum. He'll beg for 10 more minutes and if you give it to him you will just start the cycle over again.
Bedtime is the same struggle and this is new; it used to be fairly easy.
Tonight at 7:45 (bedtime is 8:00), he was watching Monsters Inc. It wouldn't be over until 9:00. So I set up the dvd player and tv in his room so he could watch the movie on dvd. Since he started the dvd from the beginning, it wasn't over until 10:00. He then said he wanted to watch another movie. I pointed out that it was past his bedtime and you guessed it, a temper tantrum. This time it was pretty violent with kicking and flailing and him threatening to throw me down the stairs. This is the thanks I get for trying to avoid the bedtime tantrum!
He is constantly demanding things and threatening us when he doesn't get them.
Reasoning with him doesn't seem to work and I am feeling worn down.
Thanks for letting me whine.
Christy