AIBU to be quite worried about my son's (just turned 7) hitting?
He has started hitting us (parents/grandparents) when he doesn't get his own way.
Today in the car he kept hitting me, I'm not even sure why as we were chatting nicely seconds before. I calmly but firmly asked him to stop, and he wouldn't, until I said we'll turn the car around and go home if he does it one more time. He immediately stopped - which meant he always had the ability to.
He never really hit as a toddler, it's a new behaviour since he started school. He's under assessment for ASD but I think he can control what he's doing. He doesn't hit in school.
We're trying to help him process emotions in a better way, journal at night, read books on emotions and has had play therapy we might return to.
I find it really disturbing. The hitting doesn't hurt so much as the thought that he feels entitled to try and hurt us, and worry what that attitude could lead to as a teen and adult (DV etc). I worry it could get worse when he gets his flood of hormones...etc etc...
AIBU for being worried?