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In the last six months a lot changed, we moved to a new house, my wife had a baby (girl) and my son turned 4 and started school.

I'm not really sure if this is the reason but for the last month or so, my son has more and more temper tantrums. Basically any time we tell him no, he gets very frustrated and angry. Sometimes shouting or pushing me. It's pretty new behavior and I really don't like it. I have talked to him after the tantrums and he usually agrees he shouldn't behave like this, but so far it keeps coming back. One other thing he does is just ignoring us whenever we ask him something he doesn't want to do, pretending he can't hear us.

The last thing I want to do is be angry or use threads (like I'm counting to 3). But sometimes it's the only way to get him to do something (like getting dressed for school).

I would really want to have a better way to communicate without the negativity.

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[–] MrFloppy 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Play this with him: https://www.rolfeducation.com/product/rolf-essentials-game-of-emotions/

I liked to play this with my children (kindergarden age) when I wanted to find out what was on their minds and they couldn't/wouldn't come out of their shells any other way.

[–] camelbeard 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks there are many things from this thread I'm going to try, if I think it's not working I might buy that "game".

Really love this community already!

[–] MrFloppy 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Luckilly I can borrow it from our libary, because it's very expensive.

[–] camelbeard 1 points 10 months ago

Thats actually smart, I might try that.