Hey everyone . My six-year-old son is autistic and non-verbal, he has some words and understands some direction but is mostly in a bit of a world of his own. As it’s the summer holidays my mum is looking after him whilst I work part time, he has scratched and bitten her when she has stopped him from doing something he shouldn’t be doing a few times now. At the weekend he bit my two-year-old niece on the finger much to everyone’s horror and can be bit of a liability needing constant supervision. Most of the time he is very happy getting on with what he wants to do, playing, watching the iPad and I also have him booked in to a local playgroup on my days off for me to take him and have some fun. The lashing out doesn’t happen to me, he does occasionally get physical with his older brother.
My mum has said “he doesn’t like me “and she said he has been “nasty “I have said that all of this behaviour is related to the autism and his lack of communication and lack of understanding and that she shouldn’t take it personally- she says I need to do something or look for advise on how to discipline him , as he was laughing after he bit my niece at the weekend. He doesn’t understand the usual kind of discipline and consequences that his brother does so I am a bit of a loss as to what to do.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
I’m getting divorced too so with mum being the only person that will have him, it doesn’t bode well for starting to try any overnights with her to give me a night off 😞