Re: Nine year old daughter displays temper

Toypup wrote: >
My mom locked my brother out of the house when he was maybe 4 yo. He was
so upset thinking she really was getting rid of him that he got a toy and
threw it at the window. He broke the window trying to get back inside the
house and boy was he in trouble then. In a child's mind, being locked out
is taken very literally. He has no idea he will when or if he will be let
back in.

Mary responds: Funny story. My little brother had a really bad day
when he was 3 or 4 (way back in the late 60's). He put kleenex in the
toaster, and later the same morning, went into the basement and shoved
a toy bow and arrow into the gas furnace burner. My mother was at her
wits end with him, so she put him outside and told him to stay out of
her sight. My brother marched back and forth in front of the house
wailing for a while - stopping every now and then to see if anyone was
coming. Then he vanished - resulting in a panicked search through the
neighbourhood. We finally found him a block away in the hallway of a
townhouse complex, surrounded by concerned residents - he'd told him
his mother had thrown him out and he had nowhere to go (i.e. in his
little brain, he'd been disowned, tossed out permanently etc.). The
point is - kids DO take this stuff literally.


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