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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[b]. I thought she was old enough to just say so, and she has.[/b] 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]

She doesn't want to just say so! She wants this to change. She's going to make life difficult for everyone until she gets some sort of results, because saying she's upset doesn't change anything.

You need to open your eyes to the stress and unhappiness this is placing on your child. You said your family is struggling. Her saying "Mother, I am upset" and you saying "I hear that you are upset" is not the solution you think it is. [/quote]

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