Is your youngster angry with friends | ADHD Information

My ss will do the same thing to other kids. He is 5 and has a 2 1/2 year old sister and a 9 moth old sister, and he will pick at them. He can be playing nice with them or other kids and then out of the blue he will be mad and pick on them. Unlike your children, my oldest daughter does mind and she has lashed out at him a few times in defence of her self. It has gotten better since we make it a point to tell him when he is playing nice with others and we do a reward system, so he is starting to get the drift. (we only started the reward system about 2 months ago.)Yes, at first we were telling him every 5 min. or so, and it got tiring, but now we don't have to tell him as offten. It semed like I spent my entire day praising him and rewarding him when we first started. I did repremand him when he did something wrong. For him sitting in a timeout worked the best, although somedays it was hard to get him to go to the timeout chair. But after awhile he got the drift, and we are having more good days than bad. I am a stay at home mom, except on the weekends,(I work on the weekend that way we don't have to pay a sitter) so I am always with him and I could be on top of him all the time so I am sure that had something to do with the fact that he got the drift so fast, I have heard from other parents that it sometimes takes longer.

I am sure that if I had not addressed the problem he would have kept doing it and then when he starts school in the fall other kids would not want to play with him or be his freind, who wants to be friends with someone who gets mad at them easily and pokes them? Not me. I also know that if I had not done something my oldest daughter who likes to do what her big brother is doing would have started to do the same to her little sister. In fact it had started and that is what made me see that this needed to change and then I started searching on the boards for tips on how dicipline

I hope that I have been of some help to you and that your situation get's better-GOOD LUCK!!!!

easily?   Our preschooler plays nicely sometimes and then makes these angry faces at the others, I don't like it and have told him so many times.

He also likes to go over to them and poke them!    Any ideas how to curtail this?   I've told him many times!    Does it call for time out?   The kids do not really mind yet (they are only 3 and 4) but I can see they look at him and sort of feel like what the heck?