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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Call your pediatrician and see if they can help get you into a child psychologist before then.

In the meantime, read the Explosive Child by Ross Greene this weekend, and start to revamp your approach. Your partner / spouse needs to be 100% on board with this.

You need to get away from "discipline" for misbehavior and start to incentive positive behavior. It's hard, but what you've been doing is not working.

What happens at school when he hits?[/quote]

My pediatrician wasn't a whole lot of help, although she did give me some names. I can call around to them. My spouse found an in-network psychologist who also works with kids, but he was clearly not the right fit. We would tell him stories about our kid and his eyes would kind of widen like he obviously had no idea what to tell us. It was a joke. Obviously I would LOVE to find someone who takes insurance. We don't make a lot of money (teacher & freelancer) and both kids are from a gazillion cycles of IVF, a hole we are still digging ourselves out of financially, but I am starting to think you have to come out of the pocket for anyone worthwhile.

I do have the book and I started it but admittedly life got in the way. I will finish it this weekend. I agree that our approaches are not working. I like your suggestion.

At school, he has been sent to the office a couple times, separated from the class (made to sit in a chair somewhere), but that's about it. Remember this is still preschool. I think they are afraid to call me and have me come get him, but I just emailed them and told them to please do so if his behavior warrants it. Their disciplinary actions are obviously also not working. There might be more that I don't know - I just found out this morning that the hitting was becoming a daily occurrence.

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