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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]

NP. We dealt with this only it was middle child. The outbursts and violence were terrible. It was tough on the other two kids.

You say things will be fine as you continue to work with your younger child. IME, to make things fine was a lot of work after the behaviors ended and much to be done by the explosive child. I have a close tight knit family and my kids are also close, choosing to spend time together with each other often. Getting there was a significant effort to rebuild us or maybe build us in the first place. I guess my point is that eliminating the behavior doesn’t necessarily fix the family. That’s a separate endeavor. [/quote]

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