It’s a new week, a new day, a new way of parenting ahead

This entry is for all the parents out there that have a child who in a not so nice way of saying, DRIVES YOU CRAZY. You think to yourself, “what is wrong with my child?”, “why are they acting this way?”, or “they’ll grow out of this stage.” Like my previous post, my son just turned six and I have been thinking these thoughts for about three years now and yet, he has NOT grown out of it. My son is Jekyl and Hyde; he can go from sweet, sensitive little man, to devil, mean screaming man in 0 to 5 seconds. You sometimes cannot predict when this outburst is going to happen and sometimes you are shocked in situtations when it doesn’t happen. You start to question yourself as a parent and start blaming yourself for the behavior’s of your defiant child. You love your child so much that it pains you inside to see him/her act this way, but at the same time you are SO frustrated you don’t know what to do. You DON’T look forward to spending time with this child b/c you know along the way he/she will have an outburst and you don’t want to deal with it. This is where I am right now with my 6 year old; today starts a new day/week of trying to surpress my child’s angry feelings and bring back my sweet little guy. No more yelling, screaming, rolling the eyes, ignoring, pushing his requests off for later, etc. It’s time for a serious 180 degrees of parenting skills to better myself, my marriage, and more importantly all my kids; not just my 6 year old. Our household has not been a happy one lately b/c of the fact that we’re all simply stressed out to the max in regards to handling our defiant child. I HATE calling him that, but it’s the truth. It’s time for me to face the truth and see that we have a problem here; not just a problem child, but a problem parenting style. Things are going to change; they HAVE to. And TODAY is the day when this change starts-for the better.