Just had the mother of all tantrum from d's age 7. I sent him out of the room and he kicked door, threw shoes, pinched me, spat at me. I did my best to ignore but had to intervene to stop him actually breaking something. He then tried to deliberately shut his fingers in the door, when that didn't get the reaction he wanted he pretended to fall down the stairs. screaming and crying the whole time. am I expecting too much of him to have grown out of this by now. He should surely know this is not going to get him anywhere! Dh tries to back me up but often says I'm too harsh on him. 7 yrs old is surely old enough to know you don't behave in that way and he is far too big to be kicking things and throwing things in temper. I will not have my home trashed! I wouldn't let him back into the family room until he calmed and apologised. That's reasonable yes?
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7 yrs old is plenty old enough to understand isn't it
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popperdoodles · 01/08/2014 15:49
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