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HELP PLEASE!!! Emotional child
michelletox
#1 Posted : Wednesday, May 12, 2010 9:56:47 PM(UTC)
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Hi there. I have 2 boys. Eldest turning 5, other boy is turning 3. I am happily married with their father. We love them to bits, and give them everything that we posibly can. My Eldest boy, Zian, is extremely emotional. He cries for absolute anything and everything!! If we want him to get dressed, change the tv channel, go to bed, go to toilet, blow his nose. Absolutely anything he does not get his way!! We are getting fed up with it, and we do not know what to do. He is starting to rub this off on his younger brother. He is going to creche, but this started before creche. I am afraid that the kids are going to start teasing him about this, but apparently he does not do this at school. Only when at home or at grandparents, or anywhere else, other than school. Bed time is also a terrible fight - mom and dad vs boys. They always have a excuse to get up one more time. They want to tell us something, or go to the toilet. Every night usually ends up in a shouting parade and a hiding then EVENTUALLY they will go to sleep. We are tired, and also need rest. It is getting to the point that we want them to go sleep at grannies over weekends, so we can at least have one night with no fights. PLEASE - ANYBODY!! Help me!! I am desperate. Will answer any questions you throw at me. d'oh!
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#2 Posted : Thursday, May 13, 2010 9:24:19 AM(UTC)
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My son is 10 and he was exactly the same - man it used to drive me mad when it came to bed time (in fact it got so bad that when I shouted at him to go to bed (he would also get out of bed for anything) - my brother said all the neighbourhood kids went to bed). My son is also an emotional child and always burst into tears for anything - even in class. Only in Grade 4 did it stop, he is still an emotional child but as the therapist said he is a sensitive child and now I am very grateful for it. His friends protect him at school and many of them have been bullied by the older grades but don't let the bullies start with my son, his friends won't allow it. It is hard to deal with but persevere it gets better, it is just their nature. It used to embrass me (especially when he burst into tears with his friends when they were younger they could not understand why he just used to burst into tears for not getting his own way), it even ended a relationship as my boyfriend at the time could not understand it and boy did he have every therary under the sun.
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#3 Posted : Friday, May 14, 2010 4:29:21 PM(UTC)
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I"m a mom of 5yr old twins (and they and I are still alive..LOL... only joking)......but I firmly believe in ROUTINE. Both my kids know the drill re bedtime. Its dinner, bath, watch a bit of TV/reading - then I give them 'the countdown' - "in 15 mins its bedtime"... "in 10 mins its bedtime"... "in 5 mins its bedtime".... then its off to the toilet and hop into bed, I arrange everything that they may possibly need BEFORE bedtime (water etc)... then its into bed, kisses and cuddles, then lights out (they each have a nightlight)....

The first few nights of setting up a routine is hell - but it takes 3-5 nights of standing to your agreement, or to break the bad habit - once they realise this is the new bedtime routine, they'll know you mean business.

Good luck!
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