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What could be wrong with my 3 year old, please help?
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<blockquote data-quote="HMBgal" data-source="post: 540491" data-attributes="member: 13260"><p>Gosh Andrea (my name is Andrea, too), I feel like I know your child. This was my grandson to a T! He's 5, about to turn 6 now and by the time he hit kindergarten, he had been invited to leave every playground, playgroup, nursery school, then suspended 11 times from kindergarten by October, and he had only started at the end of August 2011! Your child is young, but it sounds like a little more than "terrible twos" or the "terrifying threes." We got the speech evaluation, lots of pediatrician input, stuff from teachers, psychologists, testing for sensory disorders, academic testing, etc. etc. etc. etc. Like your boy, my grandson was an early walker, talker, reader, and when they put him in a k-1 class, he was working at the end of grade one curriculum in January, even though he had been suspended so many days and wasn't allowed at school more than 90 minutes a day. </p><p></p><p>My grandson seemed remorseless at times very remorseful at others, hell-bent on getting his own way, regardless. Epic meltdowns, horrible language, throwing stuff. hitting his baby sister and full grown big guys like his father and my husband, and sneaky, too. And forget about babyproofing when he was little. He would outwit any system and when you would tell him to stop, it was like he was deaf. Rewards wouldn't work, they added to his rages. We started reading The Explosive Child by Ross Greene, and that helped us turn the corner. It is for slightly older kids with the ability to understand, communicate a little bit, etc., but even so, it's a great parenting book for any child and can help get you out of that loop of chaos. </p><p></p><p>Our solutions may not be what works for your child, but we jumped on it perhaps a little later than we should have, which would have saved us so much pain and anguish, but I can tell you that with facilitated play groups, a one-on-one helper during the school hours, and yes, stimulants, he's a different child. How much of it was natural growth and maturity or the interventions or the combination of the two, we'll never know, but keep after it. Trial and error is sometimes necessary, but with love, patience, determination, pushing other people off the dime to get the help you need, good advice like you'll find here (and my advice here is worth exactly what you're paying for it, but commiseration from people who have been there can be beyond priceless, in my opinion), things will get better. Then they may get a little worse, then a little better again...My grandson is not going to be an easy child to raise, but that little boy has a lot to offer, and we are all just trying to help him get there. Hugs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HMBgal, post: 540491, member: 13260"] Gosh Andrea (my name is Andrea, too), I feel like I know your child. This was my grandson to a T! He's 5, about to turn 6 now and by the time he hit kindergarten, he had been invited to leave every playground, playgroup, nursery school, then suspended 11 times from kindergarten by October, and he had only started at the end of August 2011! Your child is young, but it sounds like a little more than "terrible twos" or the "terrifying threes." We got the speech evaluation, lots of pediatrician input, stuff from teachers, psychologists, testing for sensory disorders, academic testing, etc. etc. etc. etc. Like your boy, my grandson was an early walker, talker, reader, and when they put him in a k-1 class, he was working at the end of grade one curriculum in January, even though he had been suspended so many days and wasn't allowed at school more than 90 minutes a day. My grandson seemed remorseless at times very remorseful at others, hell-bent on getting his own way, regardless. Epic meltdowns, horrible language, throwing stuff. hitting his baby sister and full grown big guys like his father and my husband, and sneaky, too. And forget about babyproofing when he was little. He would outwit any system and when you would tell him to stop, it was like he was deaf. Rewards wouldn't work, they added to his rages. We started reading The Explosive Child by Ross Greene, and that helped us turn the corner. It is for slightly older kids with the ability to understand, communicate a little bit, etc., but even so, it's a great parenting book for any child and can help get you out of that loop of chaos. Our solutions may not be what works for your child, but we jumped on it perhaps a little later than we should have, which would have saved us so much pain and anguish, but I can tell you that with facilitated play groups, a one-on-one helper during the school hours, and yes, stimulants, he's a different child. How much of it was natural growth and maturity or the interventions or the combination of the two, we'll never know, but keep after it. Trial and error is sometimes necessary, but with love, patience, determination, pushing other people off the dime to get the help you need, good advice like you'll find here (and my advice here is worth exactly what you're paying for it, but commiseration from people who have been there can be beyond priceless, in my opinion), things will get better. Then they may get a little worse, then a little better again...My grandson is not going to be an easy child to raise, but that little boy has a lot to offer, and we are all just trying to help him get there. Hugs. [/QUOTE]
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