I am worried about my DD's behaviour. She is 6 and in year 2 and generally does well at school although sometimes is a bit uncooperative. She also seems to lack a bit of confidence. I am mainly worried about her behaviour at home where she has a tendency to get completely worked up to screaming tantrum stage very quickly and then she starts shouting things like "i hate this world" "I wish I was dead" "I'm going to kill my sister". She can be very violent and kicks and punches things and tonight broke a stair post by kicking it.
I was exactly the same when I was young. In the past few years I have been depressed and had counselling and medication and during the process realised I had felt very unloved as a child, probably because I was too busy getting in trouble!!
My concern is that the same pattern is being repeated with my DD. I have been to parenting classes and had a one on one session with an expert, but nothing seems to stop her really full on outbursts and I find it SOO hard to remain calm.
Do you think she would benefit from talking to a counsellor? My initial reaction was to not be so ridiculous, but it has helped me so much I thought maybe it could work for her?? How would I go about arranging it??