Just when you think you have things figured out - they change the rules! Last night OLA had a tantrum because he couldn't have a cookie. Now there is nothing unusual about having a tantrum. But what was unusual was it wasn't accompanied by the normal yelling, screaming, shouting, and name calling. He simply made it clear that he wanted a chocolate chip cookie. He did shout this - twice. Then vocally he was quiet. But every available object was launched all over the living room. The basket of clean towels that had yet to be folded, the pillows and cushions from the sofa, pieces from his GI Joe tank, his brother's clone figures from the bay window, his home work, and his books from his school bag, stuffed animals and extra blankets from his room. When I excused him to go to bed he proceeded to do the same in his bedroom. The rest of his blankets and stuffed animals, his sheets and mattress pad, his library books, his Lego's, and any other toys he could grab and fling. All this because he couldn't have a cookie. And vocally silent. Should I be worried? I'm not sure. It seemed so calculate - and yet there was that same wild angry look he always gets when his brain short circuits.
At least the silence made it a lot easier to maintain my cool. Even with the flying objects it was easier to wait it out when my seven year old isn't yelling insults at me! Don't know what to think????!
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