To not know what to do when six year old goes out of control

[Dishwashersaurous]

My six year old son is a kind, engaged child, doing well at school etc

Then about every three weeks or so he has an episode where he’s completely out of control and wild. There is seemingly no rhyme or reason or trigger

Eg yesterday at school at pick up time he suddenly started yelling and when asked to stop kicked and ran off out the playground

He knows that this is unacceptable and that he mustn’t cross roads by himself

When we talked about it calmly later after he had been in his room to calm down he understood his behaviour was unacceptable and didn’t know why he did it.

Aibu to not know what to do to prevent these manic outbursts and then how to deal with them if they happen

My son does the exact same thing - and has done since he was a toddler. He is normally very well behaved and sweet, but when he has a "moment", he will laugh in my face if I tell him off, try and climb all over me, and be very difficult. I think it is because he doesn't handle emotion well, and this is his way of dealing with it. Usually he doesn't calm down until I put him on his own for a little while. So...no advice, but I do sympathise!

Is he y2? My two aren't well suited to the SATs based curriculum of y2 and sometimes they just end up blowing off from all the effort of self control that they put on through a school day.

DS1 really struggled in the summer term of y2 and just came out of school and exploded into physical meltdown quite regularly. He has specific issues that cause a school day to be very draining to him, but since identifying it and changing strategy he has got easier to manage in KS2.

He’s year one, just turned six

My DD is like this sometimes. I think it's quite simple - she needs more physical exercise and a chance to be silly. So much sitting still and being sensible required at school! I find after school club is really beneficial to her as she can run round and let off steam.

He needs a strategy that gives him an outlet. So work out a specific thing he can do and get the school on board.
For example, he could run once round the playground (shouting if he has to), then when he's calmed down return to whatever he was doing without anyone making a fuss about it.

He is never like this at school only with parents. So yesterday was waiting for his older sister to come out but he had left school iyswim