Anyone else dealing with oversensitivity/emotional behaviour?

[ChopsTheDuck]

ds1 is becoming more and more draining. Over the past year or two he has gone from pretty much not displaying emotion at all (tended to not cry, or respond to anything around him) to overeacting to everything. Ont he way home from school he was stroppy and bad tempered. Got home and he was suddenly heart broken because he realised he had forgotten his yoghurt in his lunch. Then went into giggly mode, then when I refused video games he decided the world had ended. Floods of tears, inconsolable and now has taken himself off to bed where I prob won't be able to move him or get a word out of him for hours. That's the most popular one and can come out of the blue.

He seems to find it really hard to deal with anything, and I try to be patient because I know he can't help it, but it's really grating on me, and sometimes I just want to scream! I think it's a mixture of the up and down and the heart broken sobs over any little thing that is drivign me up the wall, plus I do want to help him learn to cope better with things. I don't have a clue what to do though!

It might be worth jsut keeping an eye on things and seeing how the next couple of years go, an dmaybe it will become clearer exactly what the issues are and maybe worht reviewing it then. ds's paed thinks that by about 8 years it becomes clearly, don't ask me why!

mine used to be addicted to tv, but it went wrong once he outgrew toddler tv.
Can I ask you somethign else, do you have any problems getting him to play? One of my big problems is htat ds1 doesnt DO toys. He has no imagination for creative play and no interest. So I find it really hard to keep him entertained without resorting to letting him sit on games consoles all day.

I think if I gave him ideas abotu protecting himself I'd probably find my kitchen knives dissapearing. I think you are right though, I do need to find some way of enabling him to feel protected, just need something that will work with literal thinking!

I actually only took two to legoland - my oldest two. I have annual passes for the dts and myself that I use during the week while the older two are at school. I decided to take the older two yesterday as a treat and snuck them in on the dts' passes. No chance of sunburn, for some reason it always seems cooler at legoland.

Enjoy your afternoon off.

Snuck them in as the twins? Now that's impressive. I couldn't even attempt to get DS1 in as under 5. No point as he constantly tells everyone his full name and age.

I'm afraid DS1 has no issues with playing, although he only plays his own games on his terms.

Will he play if it's something non-imaginitive IYSWIM, like cooking or contructing? If he likes a bit of lego, would something more advanced constuction wise interest him? There's all the connex stuff and lego kits. What about castles? DS1 is very much into castles and you can get books which have pull out stuff for them to fiddle with and obsess over.

Would you allow him on the internet? Might be a compromise between the games console and reading/playing with toys?

Are there any toys associated with the computer games he plays.

Sorry I feel bad that I'm not much help in this area.

As for watching films, will letting him hold the remote control work?

BR

he likes some construction, but finds it hard. His fingers are very hypermobile and his fine motor skills are crap. We did try some mroe advancved stuff, but he still prefers duplo!

But, the toys based on video games is genius! Found mariokart radio controleld cars on here. There are laods of plush toys too, which he would adore, though prob not so good for play value. His bday is in June. He does go ont he net too, but usually to play games somewhere!

He doesn't talk to strangers any more, so didn't have to worry about him openign his mouth and they don't check the passes very often, it self scanning. dd was more of a problem - the mouth on her! Shouted veyr loudly when we went through 'Yey! We got in!' I could have throttled her!

I am not having a good day. My car has broken!

Oh no! Is it a 'very broken' or can you get it sorted? Does thsi affect the school run??

BR
PS. LOL at your DD.

will find out thurs when we get it paid as to whether it is going to be affordable to get it fixed. It's a (automatic) transmission problem, hopefully jsut the fluid (£80) and not the whole gear box (£1k+).

ds1's school is a mile away. Will jsut a keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't overdo it and can walk to school. the dts can't go to school as it is 4 miles. I'm slowly going up the wall here, stuck indoors!

I tried to take the dts in, then had to drive back home at 20mph with flashers on - car won't go above 2nd gear!

Oooh nasty. Did they keep asking you questions? Why are we going slow mummy? Why are we going home mummy? Why..... I can just hear it now. Fingers crossed it's only the fluid.

mmmm a whole week at home with 4 year old twins..... How are you coping? Are they easily entertainable? Don't suppose there's anyone that can ferry them for you?

BR

yup, got it in one! Also, 'Not that way, mummy' and Drive properly^ mummy!

No one to ferry them in but they are lot more easily entertained than ds. Bang goes any chance of me getting anything constructive done though. (I'm in the last year of a law degree with the OU). So far I've played mario Kart and built pirate ships.

Can't wait for september when they will all be a mile down the road.

LOL...

Ah well enjoy the excuse oppotunity to play and make a mess spend time with the DTs. Very jealous! Although I don't think I could manage more than a couple of days myself!!

Congrats on the OU. I did two years before DS1 was born and have not had that sort of time since. Must be very hard to find spare time, and then make yourself study when you have 4 DCs, especially with pre-school twins.

Can I assume that they are at pre-school now moving to Infants in September? Will they be full time? If you can manage all you do now god knows what you'll be capable of once they're all at school! We'll have to get you a Wonder Woman costume!

Ooh that's a point, will your DS dress up? DS1 can spend ages being a doctor and giving people check ups.

Wow I do ramble don't I? Especially when you consider I'm at work.

BR