My son is coming up to 7yo and I’m losing my mind trying to handle him now.
He sleeps well, he’s half way there to being toilet trained, he’s at a fantastic independent specialist school. He used to hit a lot and he doesn’t anymore, he rarely has meltdowns anymore so I know there are lots and lots of positives, especially when I think back to my sleepless nights full of despair and worry when he was a toddler.
The negatives? He’s obsessed with throwing. I’m talking he throws everything and anything. He throws things out of windows, doors and down the stairs. He will randomly just pick something up and launch it across a room. For example he has just picked a cup up from my bedside table as I’d just had a coffee and he’s thrown it across the room. It narrowly missed my head and the leftover coffee has gone all over the carpet, bedding and wardrobe.
We have tried EVERYTHING possible but nothing helps. We’ve encouraged soft things to be thrown: squishy balls, plushies and balloons. We’ve tried to be stern but it doesn’t work, he simply doesn’t care. Tried some form of timeout - again, he doesn’t care. He doesn’t do it more when he’s upset, angry or happy. He just does it whenever and it’s always out of nowhere.
Just today he’s grabbed a photo frame and it’s smashed to pieces as he’s thrown it down the stairs. The other day he randomly launched his headphones at his window and he created a large crack in it. It’s seriously beginning to stress us out as we have two other younger children to keep safe.
I have no idea what I want from this just some sort of solidarity because this is so bloody tough to deal with every single day. It doesn’t help that he is worse for me and when his dad is home he doesn’t really do it. But obviously dad works mon-fri so it’s not always possible for him to be here. I am completely dreading the school holidays.