My son has always been so pleasant, kind and obedient but over the past almost year, he has turned into a different child.
I used to have to ask him to do something once and he did it straight away. He rarely used to get angry and when he did, he was easily brought back down.
I never thought this would be me as I am a Year 1 teacher so I deal with children his age every day.
Now, he almost constantly pulls angry faces and makes growling like noises, he grits his teeth together, threatens to punch and hit. I just don't know how to deal with it as I've never had this before. After school, I see all his friends walking nicely with their parents holding their hands and talking about the day, my so. However is taking to me in the tone of a teenager and shouting at me, or refusing to follow me and hitting me.
He is totally different and I am at my whits end, I feel like I'm bereaving what he used to be and he is making me really dislike him. Many people say it may be due to becoming a big brother back in May, but he has been like this for like I say, almost a year now and it is getting worse. He always tells me he's angry and sometimes says he doesn't want to be angry. I always sit with him and do breathing and counting and encourage him to talk about his feelings as I would with children in my class but nothing changes.
H2B (his dad) says it's all my fault because I am not stern enough with him and that he just walks all over me but I think he is too stern with him and he causes him to become even more angry rather than bringing his anger down. I am more of the belief of taking about it calmly together but H2B says it's useless what I am doing and he shouts at him and takes things away from him constantly and shuts him in his room where our son will then just trash his room up.
I just don't know what to do anymore, I never in a million years thought our son would ever turn like this from the gorgeous angel he used to be 