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my son thinks I need to be on a mood stabilizer. Tweet #fighting4answrs

calm before a very chaotic storm

Earlier, I wrote to you about David’s explosion of behavior. I looked just now, and that post never published.  I evidently saved it as a draft.  So it will seem like these events are coming back to back, in reality, it has been a couple of hours. We had about 2 hours of calm.  And then.  One would think that Mt. Etna erupted. By the time things calmed, David was restrained multiple times.  He became combative. I should really say that it all started with a grin.  That grin that says hell is coming.  His grin.  The one I should know so well, that means he is about to come unglued.  Sadly, I missed the sign that was staring me in the face. So tonight I am the worst father, my wife is the worst mother, we are the worst family.  He said “he wants a new family”. My wife

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want to know something scary?

Today we had a bit of a go.  He didn’t want to listen.  I would tell him to do something and he would laugh and grin. I would get him into his shoes, and he would take off his coat.  He would put on his coat, and then take off his shoes. I got hold of his hand, and thinking he was going to kick at me, I ended up kicking him. Later after we both calmed down, we left to run the grocery errand.  I asked him.  “Do you like how you feel when you upset or hurt someone?” “Yes, sometimes I do.”  was his reply. He said “it feels like when I got the DS.  (his gameboy)  or when I found out I was coming home.” In the grand scheme of things, today didn’t have to happen.  I should have walked away.  I can’t leave him home alone

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