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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you all. This is resonating finally— the older child is feeling very upset and she is only expressing it.

This gets me inside her head. I couldn’t imagine before why she would do that at the moment I got him to calm down.
But now I see it wasn’t really especially purposeful, just mad/letting it out.

I knew she was upset. I thought she was old enough to just say so, and she has. But I get it, she’s still undeveloped like him. It will be fine as we continue to work with him, and over and time. His therapy is amazing and I can see that he’s on a path to “grow out” of it. Before, before we had therapy, he was on a path to grow up with it.[/quote]

So she did say so, and what did you say? Basically here's some sympathy but ultimately too bad, you have to put up with it and constantly accommodate it or I will be mad at you? Sorry but that's not going to be a satisfactory response for her.

I think you're still trying to spin it more positively than you did in the original post. Yes, over time he may improve. But these are her last years of childhood/adolescence at home and they're going to be difficult because of the sibling meltdowns. She doesn't have the same time perspective that you do. [/quote]

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