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Overwhelmed Mom of three very young children.
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<blockquote data-quote="rlsnights" data-source="post: 423324" data-attributes="member: 7948"><p>Do you have someone who could take him for the day or overnight? A grandparent or other extended family? Close friend?</p><p></p><p>It sounds like you could really use a break to sleep and regroup. Is your partner/spouse around and able to take a day or two off and stay home with you?</p><p></p><p>If none of those are options and you are really afraid - which we all understand and we believe you - then you might want to see if your community has a crisis nursery that would take him or all three children for a couple days so you can get connected to a psychiatrist or other community services that might be able to help you manage. The one here in our community is confidential and doesn't report families who use their services to Child Protective Services etc unless they have solid evidence of abuse. The idea of the service is to prevent abuse from happening.</p><p></p><p>If he's not in out of home childcare/preschool you might want to see if you can get him in somewhere right away so you have a break from him and as a way of keeping your other children safe.</p><p></p><p>That kind of behavior is not normal in a 3 year old. Does his pediatrician know about it? Is that doctor supportive?</p><p></p><p>If you can get your hands on it, The Explosive Child by Ross Greene has been really helpful to a lot of parents on the board. He's a little young for some of the techniques in the book (although it's been a while since I read it) but it has some very basic concepts that apply across the board when dealing with explosive children.</p><p></p><p>Safety is always the bottom line. If your son is not safe because he is doing extremely risky things or you are at the end of your rope and are concerned you might snap then you need to take action. If you have reason to believe your other children are at risk from him then you need take steps to prevent that through increased/constant supervision or by getting him out of the house when you can't do that. And you need to be sounding the alarm bell to everyone who will listen to you that is a medical professional about these concerns.</p><p></p><p>Hang in there. Tell us more and we'll try to help.</p><p></p><p>Patricia</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rlsnights, post: 423324, member: 7948"] Do you have someone who could take him for the day or overnight? A grandparent or other extended family? Close friend? It sounds like you could really use a break to sleep and regroup. Is your partner/spouse around and able to take a day or two off and stay home with you? If none of those are options and you are really afraid - which we all understand and we believe you - then you might want to see if your community has a crisis nursery that would take him or all three children for a couple days so you can get connected to a psychiatrist or other community services that might be able to help you manage. The one here in our community is confidential and doesn't report families who use their services to Child Protective Services etc unless they have solid evidence of abuse. The idea of the service is to prevent abuse from happening. If he's not in out of home childcare/preschool you might want to see if you can get him in somewhere right away so you have a break from him and as a way of keeping your other children safe. That kind of behavior is not normal in a 3 year old. Does his pediatrician know about it? Is that doctor supportive? If you can get your hands on it, The Explosive Child by Ross Greene has been really helpful to a lot of parents on the board. He's a little young for some of the techniques in the book (although it's been a while since I read it) but it has some very basic concepts that apply across the board when dealing with explosive children. Safety is always the bottom line. If your son is not safe because he is doing extremely risky things or you are at the end of your rope and are concerned you might snap then you need to take action. If you have reason to believe your other children are at risk from him then you need take steps to prevent that through increased/constant supervision or by getting him out of the house when you can't do that. And you need to be sounding the alarm bell to everyone who will listen to you that is a medical professional about these concerns. Hang in there. Tell us more and we'll try to help. Patricia [/QUOTE]
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