Would love any ideas on why my 6 year old is just angry all the time.
It feels like it’s his default emotion, and has been for some months. The slightest thing goes wrong and he scowls and huffs and shouts “I am angry at you”. This morning I’d forgotten to set his gro clock last night so he stormed in to my room “I don’t know what time it is, I’m angry and it’s your fault and now you have to take me downstairs”. Or putting together a toy goes wrong, or we don’t have the food he wants, or a hundred other things. He’s like a mini hulk - sweet and calm, then boils over in a moment.
I try so hard to model being calm about things, thinking it through, trying again, taking deep breaths, etc. I don’t want to punish the words and behaviours (but we do have limits and boundaries), what I want is to help him not be so angry in the first place!