Tantrums, bed wetting, behavior problems, HELP.

Lindsey - posted on 07/31/2011

My daughter born October 26th, 2006 has the same issues. She screams loudly and is disrespectful, assume she learns a lot of this stuff at school. She does not like time out, but once she gets out, she does the same things she was put in time out for. She is either really sweet and loving or being mean to the animals. In our home and yelling or fussing about everything. I have done what Jennifer does and took all her toys and games and put them in trash bags out in the garage. She earns one DVD or toy or game when she behaves and acts right. She earns new rewards by compacting her sticker chart for helping with clean up, chores with the animals, etc. I often worry about her bedwetting at night, but her doctor thinks it's caused by her chronic constipation. Does your son have constipation issues?? That might be one reason for still needing his pull out. At night while he sleeps, his muscles all relax and his bladder expels what was not fully emptied. Or his brain doesn't get the message from the bladder that it's full and needs to empty while he's sleeping. Or it could be a deep sleeper issue. My daughter seems to have all those issues combined together. I have been waking her up two times a night to empty her bladder and I'm hoping she will learn to wake up on her own to urinate. My next step is to get the alarm you put on their underwear and it goes off when a light amount of urine hits it so they get trained to wake up when they need to urinate. Hope something I've said can help!!

Jennifer - posted on 05/12/2011

I've been having the same problem with my 4 yr old, lately. He's been throwing tantrums too. Ever since we let him play with the little neighbor boy. So I stopped letting them play together, for other reasons besides the tantrums. Anyway, I've started taking his favorite toys and games from him, one at a time. It seems to be working. I told him that if he wants them back and to get new ones with his allowance, he needs to start listening to us and to stop throwing fits when he doesn't get what he wants. Otherwise he'll lose his toys and his allowance and won't get anymore. So far it seems to be working, however it's only been 3 days. You can try things like what I've been trying, or according to his daddy, a switch will work too. I DON"t use that method, don't like that concept. Anyway, I hope this helps ya a little bit.