Community Question…please keep it supportive, non-punitive, peaceful and respectful towards children, parents & each other. How do you deal with aggression and lying? My 3.5 year old has always been the sweetest, kindest little girl. Within the last month though she has started getting very aggressive - especially towards her 18month old brother. She will shove him or hit him, especially if he comes near something she is playing with. She has also started throwing things when she is angry and threatened to hit her father in the eye with a toy last night. She has also started lying very recently - blaming things on her baby brother that she did. We did not use physical punishment obviously and she does not view it on tv and we try to limit her screen time. We use time-ins with either myself or her dad when she needs to calm down and then later we will talk about the incident and she will say that she understands but then go do the same thing 5 minutes later. There have been no big changes in our lives and in fact I feel like things are more stable now because of a job change with my husband a few months ago, she now gets to see him everyday (and she is very attached to him). While I realize that this goes along with the age it is also happening more often and I find myself loosing patience and then yelling which of course makes the situation worse. I always try not to yell and respond to her with empathy but lately I just feel like nothing is working and I am worried she is going to really hurt her brother one of these days. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 23:23:56 +0000
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