I need some help urgently regarding my 6 year old DS. I have no idea if the behaviour he is displaying is normal or if I expect too much of him.
1st of all to explain he was an only child until last year his now has a baby brother who is 1 and he loves dearly - never nasty to him only wants to play with his toys. He had our undivided attention until baby came along but I was always careful never to let him away with anything because I always knew we wanted a 2nd child. DH and I both work full time DH does mornings with the kids and I do nights while he is at work. He goes to afterschool 4 nights per week - football 1 night and swimming on a Sunday. He is particularly bright above average but does tend to fidgit and get into bother for silly things at school - not looking at the teacher or swinging on his chair.
My question is what's normal for a 6 year old? Is the behaviour at school acceptable - the teacher has said he was good but now more satifactory in behaviuor. At home he does some really silly things that end up getting him into trouble and it is honestly like he doesn't think ab out things. For Example - last night he was given a Christmas card from his grandparents - he opened it resad it and then scored through the names and wrote it back to them. DH went ape and put him to bed - but he honestly never thought that this was bad. It is always silly things like this and a sily voice he does that's like a baby, plus answering back.
He is never violent - has a few tandrums with things don't go his way which is fair enough I guess we'd all do that if we could, never anything life threatening of nasty - just silly things all the time. DH and I don;t stand for it so he is always in trouble for things.
DH over reacted last night to the card thing and I'm now at a loss where to go next because I think we not don;t agree on discipline and I can see this being the end of us cause I won't have DH treatment again to DS.
HELP ME?
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What is 'Normal' for a 6 year old boy?
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pateran · 11/12/2012 10:48
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