Sent to his room again!!!

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Registered: 02-24-2004
Sent to his room again!!!
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Sun, 09-11-2005 - 1:21pm

Well this morning started out ok....then after breakfast the boys went upstairs. The boys started acting up, wrestling and screaming, like they always do! Then dh and I hear Tyler yelling at Nathan to stop! He said this a couple of times, I asked what was going on.....and then we heard Tyler start to cry!

Dh and I ran upstairs. Apparently, Nathan was smacking Tyler with pillows. Pillows that have ZIPPERS on them!!! Tyler's leg ended up getting scraped by the zipper. He was bleeding and crying.....hiding under a blanket! Dh sent Nathan to his room. I started to tend to Tyler, trying to get the bleeding to stop and to calm Tyler down. (he tends to get very dramatic!) It wasn't a bad cut, but I think the blood and the stinging just made it seem worse to him.

Dh went to talk to Nathan and then had him come out and apologize to Tyler. Nathan still doesn't understand that when Tyler says to stop...that means stop. When he gets going, it's hard to stop him. And he didn't even think about the zipper being on the pillow. So NEW RULE.....no smacking each other with pillows!!!

After we got Tyler bandaged up I spoke with Nathan in his room. He seemed ok, but I'm still worried about him. He's just so worked up these days. I try to talk to him....but he doesn't want to talk. His "topics" jump from one thing to the next!

Tyler is going to a friend's house to play today. That will give Nathan and I some alone time. I think Ty would like the break too. I haven't been sleeping well lately. Everytime I wake up, I find myself thinking about Nathan, and I can't get back to sleep. Sometimes I just get tired of worrying so much.

Michelle

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Sun, 09-11-2005 - 6:58pm

My boys get worked up easy too Michelle and neither has an off switch. It is hard. We actually have a total hands off rule. Those games are not allowed at all. They cannot handle horse play because someone always gets hurt and neither stops when the other says too. Plus when he gets overstimulated, Mike will get so angry that he will get aggressive or vice versa. It is hard when they don't have a natural off switch. It is really hard at family gatherings because my nephews love to horseplay and everytime after a bit Mike gets so wound up that he goes over the edge so I have had to make the hands off rule with nephews too. It is too bad.

So the closest I have allowed is pretend lightsaber wars if they only touch swords together. But often I usually end up taking those away too.

Heck they were just in here bouning on the therapy ball. Mike got so out of hand that he was throwing the ball full on at the sliding glass door. When I told him to stop, he did for one second, made some noises then started again. Off to time out he went.

Renee

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