First of all, I am very sorry for not writing for so long but it's not easy to update my blog when I am so busy with 2 kids and a full-time job. I will try and do better.
So, here's my update...
William was prone to panics and tantrums. As soon as he wanted something, he would just throw a big tantrum until we could finally guess (sometimes after over 20 minutes) what the poor guy wanted. The little guy was frustrated all the time and the crying and screaming forced me to get out of the house a few times to try to put myself back together and make sure I wouldn't do anything I wasn't supposed to (yell at him, hit him, etc.). I always managed not to do anything bad because I would just walk away and take a few deep breaths and come back to find him most of the time, in a better state.
We finally realized that the reason for acting that way was that William wasn't speaking yet. (He's still not speaking fluently at the age of 5 and a half). The panics and the tantrums were because he couldn't communicate in any other way. With a lot of thinking and talking with my husband and our family members, we decided to try something with William that would stop him from panicking all the time. It's a little something I call "the show me language". As soon as someone would "smell" a panic or a tantrum coming up, we would pick William up in our arms and ask him calmly "show me what you want" and we taught him to point out with his arm (he couldn't point with his finger... another symptom I'll talk about later) and we would just walk around the room and ask him several times "you want this?" "you wanna eat that?", etc. You know what? At the age of almost 6, we still use that method and it has calmed him down a whole lot.
Stay around for another update in a few days.
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