What do you do when your 4 year old argus with everyone, all day, and about everything. No matter what anyone said today, he would say "no" to it and then say something to the opposite of it. Every time his sisters tried to talk to me in the car, he would start yelling at them, "it's my turn!" And then they would proceed to argue. Every time I try to interject and help, he just yells over me. 
It's very frustrating. If we are at home, I have been putting him in his room so that he can vent his frustrations in there without disturbing everyone else. If we are in the car, I usually just stop talking (why yell over him) and then he gets upset that I'm not talking to him. I don't know what to do anymore. I love the little guy so much, it breaks my heart. I understand that he is comfortable with me so those emotions come out but why? He has been like this since he was a baby. I can remember him in his walker yelling at his sisters. LOL!
He had his first day of preschool on Monday and I was wreck missing him and worrying that he would be bad. Oh no, he was a perfect angel. But the minute I get there, he doesn't want to leave or listen. It took me 20 minutes and bribing Star Wars legos to get him to leave. That was upsetting to me. I missed him like crazy all day and he turns into a little punk the moment I get there.
Sunday wasn't a good day either. He yelled and cried over everything that day. I found myself several times that day, just picking him up and rocking him like I did when he was a baby. That seemed to help.
My DH is out of town right now so I know he is missing his Daddy.
Unfortunately, my DH is out of town a lot so we need to figure something out to make this better. Any ideas? The talk to him on the phone every day and we Skype sometimes and we take mini trips to visit him if he is gone for awhile.
Anyone else have a child like this?
Is this just normal 4 year old boy stuff?
It's very frustrating. If we are at home, I have been putting him in his room so that he can vent his frustrations in there without disturbing everyone else. If we are in the car, I usually just stop talking (why yell over him) and then he gets upset that I'm not talking to him. I don't know what to do anymore. I love the little guy so much, it breaks my heart. I understand that he is comfortable with me so those emotions come out but why? He has been like this since he was a baby. I can remember him in his walker yelling at his sisters. LOL!He had his first day of preschool on Monday and I was wreck missing him and worrying that he would be bad. Oh no, he was a perfect angel. But the minute I get there, he doesn't want to leave or listen. It took me 20 minutes and bribing Star Wars legos to get him to leave. That was upsetting to me. I missed him like crazy all day and he turns into a little punk the moment I get there.
Sunday wasn't a good day either. He yelled and cried over everything that day. I found myself several times that day, just picking him up and rocking him like I did when he was a baby. That seemed to help.
My DH is out of town right now so I know he is missing his Daddy.
Unfortunately, my DH is out of town a lot so we need to figure something out to make this better. Any ideas? The talk to him on the phone every day and we Skype sometimes and we take mini trips to visit him if he is gone for awhile.
Anyone else have a child like this?
Is this just normal 4 year old boy stuff?
One of my friends calls four the "best of times and the worst of times", and I think she's got it exactly right.
One minute, they're raising holy cain, and the next minute they're rocking in your arms like they did when they were babies.
