I'm looking for help and other people's experiences with having a 6 year old who has emotional outburts.
My son who is 6, turns 7 in October still has tantrums/emotional outburts.
These are usually contained to at home. He enjoys going to school, is happy at school and behaves well and having spoken to the school about his outburts they've said its not something he's ever shown in school. He also goes to Beavers and swimming club and again behaves well.
His outburts at home tend to start with him not getting his own way over something, he will go from 0 to 100 in a matter of seconds and the rage takes over him, he will lash out at us, tries to hurt us, his brother, throws things and screams to the point I worry neighbours would think we are hurting him.
He is very strong and we struggle to move him to a safe space (his bedroom usually) for him to calm down. There's nothing we can do to calm him down and getting angry with him makes him worse. Sometimes they can go on for up to an hour. He's always had this problem since he was a toddler but the older and stronger he's getting it feels the worse they are getting and as parents we struggle to know how to handle the outburts. They don't happen every day but I would say over the course of a week we'd get 5 out 7 days on average with and outburt.
When he's with friends we have no problems and if we have a family day out or we are doing something where he's kept busy he is as good as gold and from an outsider looking in you'd never know he has these outburts at home.
Is this something that's normal? Will he grow out of it eventually? Or is there more too it and we should be seeking help?