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Emotional manipulation or something more serious from 4 yr old grandson...
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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 503411" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Is it manipulation? It could be an expression of real emotional distress. My son, now aged 5, spent a month last summer with his father and wider family in Morocco. It's a different culture... hitting children to discipline them is frequent and harsh. My ex-husband, who had no understanding of ADHD though I am trying very hard to educate him, was hitting him all the time. J (who is also extremely sensitive), apparently, began screaming that he was going to kill himself, throw himself from the window. I believe hitting or harshly punishing some kinds of children does this to them. I have spoken about this with my ex-husband and stressed that, despite all the cultural norms of Morocco, it must not happen again. </p><p>This may have something, or nothing, to do with your grandson. But I don't believe in my son's case that he was being "manipulative".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 503411, member: 11227"] Is it manipulation? It could be an expression of real emotional distress. My son, now aged 5, spent a month last summer with his father and wider family in Morocco. It's a different culture... hitting children to discipline them is frequent and harsh. My ex-husband, who had no understanding of ADHD though I am trying very hard to educate him, was hitting him all the time. J (who is also extremely sensitive), apparently, began screaming that he was going to kill himself, throw himself from the window. I believe hitting or harshly punishing some kinds of children does this to them. I have spoken about this with my ex-husband and stressed that, despite all the cultural norms of Morocco, it must not happen again. This may have something, or nothing, to do with your grandson. But I don't believe in my son's case that he was being "manipulative". [/QUOTE]
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