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I have a lovely DS who is 7.
For the past few months he has been taking and hiding things from around the house and from school. For the most part it is small stuff, it seems to be more the taking of the thing rather than the actual usefulness of the thing to him if that makes sense. We have been upfront with school, and made DS return the things that he has taken. His teacher believes it is an emotional issue and has been trying to talk to him, as have we. Yesterday school found paracetamol tablets in his drawer at school that he had taken in from home, unknown to me. Due to the potential seriousness of this he has been referred for a course of 'drawing and talking' that will begin after half term.
In the early stages we punished DS for his behaviour but this escalated his behaviour and on the advice of his teacher we stopped punishing him and now talk to him. We remind him that his behaviour is not ok, we encourage him to be honest when he has taken something and to swiftly return it.
I am really worried about him. I do not know what is going on that would worry or upset him so much to make him act out like this but obviously there is something.
Has anyone seem similar behaviour in a child and have any idea how we can help him.
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HypodeemicNerdle · 07/02/2014 09:51
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