Ideas gratefully received....
ds is a very sensetive little boy, very perceptive and empathetic, but at the same time quite immature emotionally. As a result, I think, he finds it difficult to deal with this emotions, particularly his temper. He externalises things which is good IMO - I don't want him to turn into a child/adult who internalises things, worrying about stuff and keeping it all in. So that fact that he wears his heart on his sleeve is good. However he has a real temper and today has to see the Head techer for the 2nd time this year for kicking/hitting other children.
There have also been minor incidents of physical 'attacks' on other children. In his mind he is always justified in retaliating - one major incident where he punched someone on the chin was because the victim was being nasty to one of his freinds for instance so ds waded in to help his friend out.
However much as these incidents may be justifiable in his own head, obviously physically attacking other kids at school is not acceptable. We have given his strategies like counting to 10, stamping his feet, clenching his fists etc but in the heat of the moment he forgets about these, and the fact that it is wrong to hit and that he will be punished (which he is quite scared about).
He gets plenty of attention at home, ispunished at home by restricting playstation time (curretnly limited to 30 mins per day), being send to his roomto calm down etc.
So thanks for gettig to the end of this - any ideas, anyone?
TIA