Josh's Anger

Josh's anger has reached a new high. All weekend, he was smarky. I may have made that word up, but it seems to perfectly describe his behavior...that is before it turns to angry, cold, hateful spite. What I mean by smarky is talking back and refusing to do anything I ask. When I say, "Josh please go put your shoes on." He snipes "No." When he's not defying me so directly, he's disagreeing with everything I say. When I don't remember something, he starts screaming that I'm lying to him. If I say I think butterflies are pretty. He'll say "No you don't."

This weekend he's started hitting me with whatever he has in his hands or with his bare hands. He know that anything he throws at me he loses for a time. Now I've had to add that anything he hits me with he loses for a period of time. So, he stopped actually hitting me and just runs behind me swinging his shoe horn, for example, at me without connecting. While doing this he is screaming HA!

On Thursday last week, Kung Fu Kids Austin came to daycare and gave the kids a quick lesson to sell us on signing the kids up for Kung Fu during daycare. I'm just guessing, but I think this may have sparked his new level of aggression. I did sign them both up, but I now plan on letting Joey participate but not Josh. Joey tells me that the guy definitely told them not to do the moves at home, but Josh isn't listening to that. He feels he has now been given tools to defend himself against me when he has to go to timeout.

When I put him in timeout this weekend, he screamed like it was torture...then he would giggle and try to break anything he could reach...then he would call me names. He's really, really angry. Saturday night was SO bad! But Sunday was a little better...I'm guessing he was just kind of tired of being difficult.