anger management

[stitch]

please tell me how i should react.
my 8 yr old ds love his tv. he woke up this morning at half three, and was watching tv till half nineish, when i insisted he turn the thing off.
he argued with me a bit, then and ive just discovered this, went upstairs, and from my wardrobe, got out all my most expensive clothes, and threw them all over the room. hundreds of pounds worth of stuff. i dont know if has damaged them or not, but ....
what should i do?

Does he often wake at 3.30?

Is this part of a pattern of behaviour or a one off outburst?

does he have a tv in his room? if he does get rid of it

as for the clothes .. how would he damage them by throwing them around

I would make him tidy them up tbh

unless there's deeper seated issues going on

just read this somewhere else!!!!

Pmsl.... I replied on other thread

If this is not part of an ongoing problem I would

1. Make him help you tidy up

2. If something is damaged dock his pocket money to help pay towards getting it fixed and/or make him do extra chores to 'pay back' the cost ....at least in part

3. No TV for a set period of time, add on more time if he has a strop.

If he has no SN then at 8 he is old enough to know not to do this and to understand that types of behaviour have consequences.

thank you all for your helpful advice.
sorry about the double conversation. the kids managed to do strange things whilst i went downstairs.
he doesnt have a tv in his room. he says he wet himself, and that was why he got up at half three. i sincerely hope this is a one off, and never ever happens again. he went down to the living room to watch tv.
the clothes are all hand embroidered saris. costing between ninety and two hundred pounds each. pure silk, raw silk , chiffon etc. they are hung up in wardrobe, and newly bought coz of all the family weddings this summer. some you just have to look at for them to get a stain.
ive tried the consequences thing.. i hope it works.

sorry about your clothes, stitch. Hope the consequences thing works.

It sounds like your son knows he did a bad thing by getting up at 3.30 to watch tv, hence him saying he'd wet himself - he can't be using that as a reason all the time (assuming he does not have a bedwetting problem). It's more like a one off excuse for a one off occurrance.

IME bedtimes and getting up times can go a bit haywire in the school holidays. My older son has sometimes got up very early to watch cricket or a favourite cartoon on TV (has been known toused to set his alarm for 5.30 till I stopped him).