I just slapped my 5 year old brother. Before you jump to conclusions let me explain. Me and my older sister just got kittens, they were abandoned buy their mothers and they are only 5 and 6 weeks old. My brother, we’ll call him Mike, keeps grabbing them and squeezing their tummy’s and basically being really rough with them.
We’ll about half an hour ago, he decided that he was the kittens…. father, I got really annoyed because he was being really mean and loud. So, eventually I told him that he needs to let them be (he was also holding the hostage), and he started hitting me! I was soo pissed! Mike has ALWAYS been really violent, and he hits hard, like full force. Of course his little fists wont hunt until they make contact with your face.
I asked him like twenty times to stop and he just started kicking, punching, biting, slapping, and pinching. At that point I was losing patients, so I told him he needs to listen to me, and i explained to him why he needs to be more careful with the kittens and how they are still babies. You know what the little asshole did? He spit in my face! I was like hell no!
I told him he needs to go take a nap, so I carried him upstairs, the whole way up hes screaming kicking punching, the whole nine yards. I drop him on his bed and he continues with his fit, I tell him that if hes gonna act like a baby hes gonna get treated like one; hence the nap. He kept slapping me and stuff and I lost it, I slapped him, not super hard… but now I feel really bad.
Things like this happen daily, and I’m home alone with him for at least 8 hours a day. I dont know how I’m supposed to handle him for the rest of summer. Someone, please, I need help, how would you handle a “problem” child.
Thanks :D.
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Sounds like a problem.You should try to take him to see a therapist..I mean animal abuse?Then violent behavior?Sensing a pattern here lol.
Was he always like this?If not what changed?
Hi TBW, I totally agree with Xirizo. Animal abuse & violent behavior is a tell-tale sign of serial killer in training. I’m not trying to be funny, really, serial killers and violent criminals share those signs in early childhood. So I hope you can get your little brother under control!
You shouldn’t feel too bad about the slap. I mean, it sucks, yeah. But it’s an understandable reaction to an extreme situation. I wish I could give you advice, but I’ve never had to care for a kid, much less a violent one. A friend of mine teaches elementary school in a bad neighborhood, and she has to deal with problem kids a lot. Sometimes she has luck by channeling their energy into something creative. Drawing, building something, etc. And sometimes she just loses it and yells at them :/
I agree with salt, channel his energy into playing outside, crafts, fun things. Maybe go to the pool and challenge him to a swim race. When I used to babysit when I was 16, I did crafts. It keeps them really focused.