DS has just thrown a stone in my face

[greenrock]

He is six and was in a temper over not getting his own way. I went out to where he was sitting on the drive to ask why he was crying and he hurled a handful of stones at me hitting me in the face with one.

He is already on a no TV day today because he kicked stones at me yesterday and we have a rule that any time he hurts me he misses a day of TV.

How can I help him to control his temper?

How is he at school? I think you need more advice and other tactics as it sounds far more complex than simply missing a day of tv if you have to have rules about what happens if he hurts you.

he has had some problems at school in the past the school don't communicate with me much so I assume things have improved.

I have a six year old DD and to be honest a whole day of tv is probably too long for her to comprehend.

Have you tried to break down the day into time slots? So if he can behave for 1 hour then a reward of 15 mins tv. That kind of thing. I have to do that with my 6 & 2 year old.
Hope that helps a little but to be honest my parenting is wanting at the best of times

he shouldn't be hurting you

I am wondering if it's an attention thing - he has worked out that if he hurts you he gets masses of attention, I bet you shout and react (very natural response) and haul him to his room/away from the scene

try to catch him being ''good'' and praise where you can

have you tried this: any hurting results in instant time out with no attention from you - if he's not compliant with himself in timeout then put your self in timeout - go make a cup of tea/read the paper/basically ignore him

this latest instance - he couldn't get his own way over something, he was sitting outside crying, you went out (giving attention) he threw stones at you and got a response from you.

Also I think a whole day TV lost is too much - he's got nowt to lose as the punishment is quite big IYSWIM