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Why does my son complain so often?
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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 445710" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>I tried your suggestion this morning, exhausted. There was a budding tantrum (cause: the new gun was in the car a longish walk from our house, we weren't dressed yet and I had told him I would make new bubbles for it with washing up liquid...) and I tried praising and encouraging him for the crying. It made him angrier and cry even more intensely. So there you are... I think he would have been quick to read the "sarcasm" in it as he is always quick to read underlying emotions and intentions.</p><p>In a way, I don't think J's protesting and complaining is about the external thing he supposedly wants. It seems to be about expressing something within him, some anger or fear or anxiety - I really don't know - and these things just become pretexts for that. This is why he doesn't really go ballistic in shops asking for this and that... I think. But it's all guesswork, isn't it? Anyway, thanks for the excellent suggestion and advice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 445710, member: 11227"] I tried your suggestion this morning, exhausted. There was a budding tantrum (cause: the new gun was in the car a longish walk from our house, we weren't dressed yet and I had told him I would make new bubbles for it with washing up liquid...) and I tried praising and encouraging him for the crying. It made him angrier and cry even more intensely. So there you are... I think he would have been quick to read the "sarcasm" in it as he is always quick to read underlying emotions and intentions. In a way, I don't think J's protesting and complaining is about the external thing he supposedly wants. It seems to be about expressing something within him, some anger or fear or anxiety - I really don't know - and these things just become pretexts for that. This is why he doesn't really go ballistic in shops asking for this and that... I think. But it's all guesswork, isn't it? Anyway, thanks for the excellent suggestion and advice. [/QUOTE]
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