Since most of the things that feel the most dangerous to me have only began to occur recently, husband isn't taking it seriously. And even I'm not sure if it's just some kind of phase or he's realized that this will get him more attention, OR if this is just the new way his behaviors are going to be from now on and only get worse. The little one doesn't seem *scared* of difficult child, in fact he adores him despite the constant rejection and pushing and hitting, etc. I personally have a feeling that these more serious things were always just under the surface and he's controlled them or not known how to communicate them until now (now that he's older) for fear of consequences. It seems like he doesn't want to control them anymore is testing the waters to see how far he can go. husband is soft on these issues and I can see how that affects how far difficult child goes sometimes. difficult child is usually very good when he is grounded. But the minute he is not, he is back to his ways. He's been grounded a LOT lately. I think it's affectiveness is wearing thin.
He stopped hitting me after I called the sherriff last year and they had a talk with him, but he's still hitting easy child, kicking holes in the walls and destroying things on purpose. And since he can't "hit" me anymore, he has upped his game on the stalking me and verbal attacks when husband isn't home. When Kanga was younger were her symptoms less severe?