I'm mortified,
My little has been a tough cookie but in the past year, he has developed hitting when he is asked to change an activity or I'd he just plain doesn't want to do something and now he has began doing this in nursery and to teachers and now they are wanting to talk to an agency which I am heartbroken about because I was really hoping it could be handled at home. I'm feeling a little defeated and useless as a parent.
When we have a hitting episode, I call him over when he calms down and talk to him about how hitting and kicking is bad etc when he's angry and I get a blasé "I'm sorry" but I never feel like its being taken in.
We've watched all the videos, we have talks after each lashing out episode but it doesn't seem to be working.
We are introducing routine charts again to help him know routines as I think he's got use to us becoming lax over the past year or so and feels like he's ruling the roost in a hope this can hopefully calm him down and any changes to routine won't be such a shock.
Can I please get some ideas or suggestions to try to hopefully rein this in. Any help would be great!