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Sweet and Aggressive Three Year Old Son, breaking my heart
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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 550617" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Hi StayPositive. Welcome to the forum. I am sorry you are experiencing this and do understand something of your despair. Having this kind of child is a very isolating experience and one meets, unfortunately, a lot of judgement and not much compassion and understanding. In that sense, a diagnosis will probably be your friend.</p><p>From the list of adjectives you give, your son sounds very like mine (who is now five). When he was younger, he was forever hitting other children. He still does, but it is less often and almost always as part of play that is too brusque and rough, rather than in anger or with intent to hurt. So without obviously being able to predict what will happen for your son, I do think there is good reason to hope this will get better. That said, though, I'm afraid social relations are still difficult for my son and he is still held back by his inability to control himself, his great impulsiveness and immaturity in certain situations (he is maturer than his years in other ways). I don't know whether medication helps with these things. We haven't gone down that road yet.</p><p>You have to be dynamic and take action, not hide your head in your sand and think all this will go away because it almost certainly will not though it may well improve a lot. It doesn't sound as if you are doing that.</p><p>I hope others will come to with good (even better <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />) advice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 550617, member: 11227"] Hi StayPositive. Welcome to the forum. I am sorry you are experiencing this and do understand something of your despair. Having this kind of child is a very isolating experience and one meets, unfortunately, a lot of judgement and not much compassion and understanding. In that sense, a diagnosis will probably be your friend. From the list of adjectives you give, your son sounds very like mine (who is now five). When he was younger, he was forever hitting other children. He still does, but it is less often and almost always as part of play that is too brusque and rough, rather than in anger or with intent to hurt. So without obviously being able to predict what will happen for your son, I do think there is good reason to hope this will get better. That said, though, I'm afraid social relations are still difficult for my son and he is still held back by his inability to control himself, his great impulsiveness and immaturity in certain situations (he is maturer than his years in other ways). I don't know whether medication helps with these things. We haven't gone down that road yet. You have to be dynamic and take action, not hide your head in your sand and think all this will go away because it almost certainly will not though it may well improve a lot. It doesn't sound as if you are doing that. I hope others will come to with good (even better :)) advice. [/QUOTE]
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