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<blockquote data-quote="AHF" data-source="post: 407777" data-attributes="member: 11180"><p>Hi and welcome. I am new here too and mostly on the "emeritus" forum. My older son is 23 now. I can remember his hitting me when he was 6, 7, 8. And I worried about him and gave him time-outs etc. Now I wish I had taken the behavior much more seriously. He is not a physical abuser, but he is abusive--he's tall and strong and uses his physical presence to intimidate people, especially women, sometimes me. It is a trait that will cause him problems all his life, not to mention the hurt and pain it will cause to those who love him. So I am not saying to take him to a psychiatrist, at least not yet, but I would treat the physical violence as a no-tolerance zone, with very severe consequences from the first swipe. THEN you can get to talking about whatever issues he's having at school, how the new challenges are scaring him etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AHF, post: 407777, member: 11180"] Hi and welcome. I am new here too and mostly on the "emeritus" forum. My older son is 23 now. I can remember his hitting me when he was 6, 7, 8. And I worried about him and gave him time-outs etc. Now I wish I had taken the behavior much more seriously. He is not a physical abuser, but he is abusive--he's tall and strong and uses his physical presence to intimidate people, especially women, sometimes me. It is a trait that will cause him problems all his life, not to mention the hurt and pain it will cause to those who love him. So I am not saying to take him to a psychiatrist, at least not yet, but I would treat the physical violence as a no-tolerance zone, with very severe consequences from the first swipe. THEN you can get to talking about whatever issues he's having at school, how the new challenges are scaring him etc. [/QUOTE]
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