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Okay, make yourselves a cuppa, because this is a long one!
For the past year and a half, me and my son have been uprooted and under a lot of stress. A past relationship was strained by my partners family, constantly causing trouble especially at my son's school as they had children in the same class, and constantly making up allegations and calling the police to my house. Eventually, after a year of trouble, I removed my son from school as he was terrified to go, and we moved cross country back to where I am originally from. Now, my son is nearly 6 (next month), and has settled in nicely at school. He didn't start off so great and played up, so the teachers put him down as Special educational needs. This was understandable after everything that had happened previously. It is now 6 months later and I have heard nothing about the SEN, is this normal? He is undergoing speech therapy and is being referred to a peadiatrician for possible tourettes syndrome. He has had several tics since he was 4 and nearly 2 years later they are still here, if not worse. We have nice neighbours who have children, he is a very active child and loves nothing more than playing outside with them. The problem is hitting. When he is over excited, he hits. I know it is not done nastily, but I do not want him hitting. Does anyone have any suggestions that I could try to help him? I have made him go and apologise to the little girl and take his favourite toy for her to play with for the rest of the day, which upset him. I also sat him down and explained that hitting is wrong etc, but I know sometimes he's just in the moment. So if anyone can relate, how did you stop your child hitting when over excited?