Problems with Anger

[jenny32]

Does anyone else experience occasions in which your child lashes out
in extreme anger? My daughter at times gets so angry that she will
slap her face or bang her head on the wall, we try to console her but
it seems to anger her more. I am sure some of it has to do with her
inability to communicate easily. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[HikingStick]

Our son is starting to do this, too. From what I've read, it comes
with the territory.

We're not entirely sure how to handle everything yet, but we're
planning to ask his doctors what they recommend. For now, when on the
extreme end, I try to hold him close and calm him. It's not going to
get any easier as they get bigger.

[Jenny Moretter]

I have had so many talks with her doctors and they have all said the same thing, you just need to restrain her which I think angers her more being she is being confined.

We had the worst experience the other day. We all went to a family dinner at a restaurant and we were getting ready to leave and Mackenzie just starting yelling and slapping her head. I tried calming her down and putting her in the car which worked for a couple of minutes until she realized she was going home then she literally banged her head on the car door window, it is the scariest thing when your child does this while driving. I wish I had all the answers but I do not and I hate to say either do the doctors. If anything I need to learn to be patient and more understanding with her and try myself to not get so frustrated. My husband and I are at wits end and find ourselves having arguments over our daughter and what we should and should not be doing.

[Marie Jayne Riemer]

Ive found its obviously easier to deal with at home than out in public. Im not quite sure how to handle the public fits yet. So far I try to make sure i have a helper, either of my teens or my hubby.
 
At home, though I found the best solution to those transitional fits(nothing transitions them out of the fit) is to put him in his bed and leave him until he is ready to come out. Its safer for his thrashing around and it allows him to get thru it a bit easier. Somtimes we have to go the restraining route though too. As im sure  it is with your daughter, he has no spatial awarness of where he is throwing his body and head around.
 
Its awful to feel helpless to do somthign somtimes.
 
MJ
 


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