My ds will be 4 in April. I also have ds1 (7) and dd (5). Because we are in Scotland, he doesn't start school until Aug 07, but will be in pre-school 5 mornings a week next year. This year he goes to a nursery school 5 mornings.
He is a bright child, with excellent speech, but not particularly gifted ie doesn't read or write, so that's not the issue. He is in his element when he is one-on-one with an adult, but needs their full attention, asking questions about everything he sees, needing to touch and pick things up and explore. If this attention isn't given to him he will either disappear and do something he knows he'd be asked not to - like playing with taps and flooding bathrooms - or he will move furniture around - eg leaning on all the kitchen chairs until they are all over the room - or redistribut toys around the house without playing with them, in a distracted rather than calculated way.
At nursery he is fine when focussed on by a member of staff eg with a story, but socialises poorly. He gets very agressive. This is also reflected at home, where he seriously attacks his siblings, but particularly his brother.
While he would sit and watch a movie from start to finish on his own, put his siblings in there with him and he just gets restless and attacks them.
I'm sure it's a common phrase on here, but I am at my wits' end. I absolutely don't know where to go with him. I can't bear spending time with him as he is so destructive and just makes me angry.
I am increasingly wondering whether I should see a doctor about him, and start getting tests done. What for, I'm not sure, but I have spent so long saying he'll grow out of it and he's just not.
Please help.
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I wonder if there's something wrong with my 4 yo ds...
utterlyconfused · 18/02/2006 12:07
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