ds keeps hitting me

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over and over again, non of the parenting strategies have worked with him, he keeps head butting me all the time, the community paed said he thought it was all down to language delay and when his language came his behaviour would improve and its just got worse.

today all he as done is hit me and laid on the floor refusing to move, its getting me down so much i dont know where i am going wrong, people avoid us, people dont like their children with him because he hits out at other chilren but i've noticed other kids are doing stuff to wind ds up, hes 3 but i feel i'm losing control of him.

at the childrens hospital the other day he was kicking the drs and lashing out curling into a ball and hiding under chairs he needed swabs and bloods and a consultant walked in and asked if he always had that mannerism of curling into a ball but i just never saw it as anything. hes just such hard work at the moment :(

I know that feeling. It does get better.
Dd2 was terrible at 3, and thought it would last forever. We have learnt that when she is kicking off that whenever possible we leave her to calm down, she only kicks off of we talk to her or touch her.

As her speech got better it did improve but we still have to use visuals and Pre plan.

You have my sympathy, we too have been through this with DS. It suddenly stopped with him although if thoroughly stressed he may still do it but it is very rare now. He is 5. When it happens try and remain as calm as possible and say we don't hit, you make mummy very sad. Don't let the last word you say be hit.

Doctors visits are still a trial but I've bought a little doctors set so we can pretend at home.

Good luck.

thanks for replying

just having a really bad day, people look where ever we go, tonight hes broken a lamp my dad gave me, he just seems so angry but i cannot comfort him.

i do try leave him just to save my own sanity but hes getting more and more violent, hes so big and heavy and i struggle to carry him when hes throwing himself down on the floor in the street and refusing to be picked up but refusing to walk.

his language is coming he can tell me what he wants and is just getting the odd sentence but his behaviour is just getting worse and worse

would it be worth giving him a safe place to go, bean bag ect. Write a social story, one aimed at his level.