I truly hope somebody can help me out on this topic. I dont know what to do.....Im not sure if this is the right forum i should be under to discuss this topic but if anyone has any advice please let me know....
About 10 months ago I moved out of my sons fathers house due to us always fighting and being hostile towards each other. I wanted to take myself out of the situation and did not want my son to see us fight. I now live on my own and my son goes back and forth from me to his father. We both see him on a regular basis, just separatly. Some nights he sleeps at my home, and some nights at his dads....
Anyways, in the last couple of weeks out of nowhere my son has been refusing to listen to a word i say and having very weird mood swings...for example, i simply turned a light on in our living room and he threw a fit like the world was coming to an end, telling me "turn that off right now" (without reason)...He refuses to let me do everyday things like brush his teeth (he clenches his mouth shut), refuses to go to bed unless i go to bed with him...he will tell me that he wants something to eat, and wen i get food for him he will change his mind and start freaking out...When i go to take the food away he starts freaking out even more demanding that i put it back in front of him. And in the end....he still never eats it. I tried time out, i tried taking toys away, i tried simply talking to him, i tried showing him affection but he just pushes me away continuing to throw a tantrum, absolutely nothing is working....Yesterday, I was trying to take his jacket off and put his pajamas on to put him in bed and he WAS NOT having it. I got so fed up trying to fight him to take his jacket off that i hit him in his face...(i know it was the wrong thing to do but i did it out of impulse and i feel terrible about it). His dad tells me that when he has him, he is NEVER like that. He used to never be like that towards me either but just recently this all started.
His dad was diagnosed with ADHD as a child and more recently, Bipolar disorder, but i dont think you can diagnose a 3 year old at that young of an age.
if anybody has any advice please HELP ME. i dont know what to do anymore, i dont want to hit him again but he drives me crazy i feel like if this keeps happening then i will end up hitting him again.. :( ↓
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