**Lest any of you think this is a recent picture, no, this was last summer! It's not warm enough for shorts and flip-flops yet, nor is anyone's grass that green!**
He was playing at a friends across the street yesterday, and when I called him home, I reminded him to get his helmet. Well, when he finally did get home, I noticed some slamming noises out in the garage, and he came in incoherently yelling at me....something that is becoming more frequent in this phase...all I caught was something about his helmet and me bringing it home....huh?
Then later, the neighbor called, asking if Jared had found his helmet because they had looked all over for it with no luck. I felt bad because I had assumed he had, but checked the garage and...no helmet.
So after his bath, I asked him where he saw his helmet last, since the neighbors were still looking for it and we needed to find it. He looked down at his feet and mumbled something about the garbage.....wha? Apparently, he found his helmet, but I guess it bugged him enough that he had to find it, so when he got home he threw it and his old one away! He told me "he's tired of being safety(his word) so he doesn't want it anymore!"
So I called the neighbor and told them what my adorable son had done. We got a good laugh out of it...and then I told my adorable son that if he throws his helmet away again, that his bike, scooter, and skateboard will soon follow....he didn't like that idea too well.
Any ideas any of you have about curbing anger outbursts in a four year old, send them my way!
6 comments:
that's pretty funny. at least he admitted it. did you make him dig it out?
i have no words of advice. sorry. have you done the love and logic classes?
When my son would wake up grumpy with the world (mornings were always the worst for him) I would send him to his room for "Chill Out" time. I got the idea from Super Nanny. On one of her shows they made a chill Out chair for the kid.
Good Luck! I think it's great you told him he wouldn't have his bike if he did it again.
Sounds like you have a bit of a comedian on your hands!
I'm glad that things are looking good for Nicole's surgery...GOOD LUCK!!
FUNNY Boy!!! I have some history with anger outbursts. We were advised to have them repeat them selves in a calm tone because our ears do not hear yelling and we have to talk nice to everyone. So if I am yelled at whined at or spoken rudely to I just remind them that my ears do not understand and they can repeat themselves kindly and calmly if they wish. If this does not work then they get to calm down on their own in time out.
That is FUNNY!
What a mean mom you are for making him "safety"...I never wore a helmet growing up...and I Comed threw it Ok....slobber....drool...convulse...
I find that a sound beating and a few days in the basement make my kids start behaving! Just kidding. . . even that doesn't work! Seriously, we had that with Emerson about the same age. I found time outs to be very effective--we would tell him it's okay to be angry but he needed to do it in his bedroom until he could talk rationally. . . and then we'd throw him in the basement! ;)
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