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Jul
06
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How many times have other people given you “the look” when your child acted out in public? How many of them understood what you were going through as you tried to get your child to behave? I’ve definitely been on the other side of that look, and it’s not fun.
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Archive for the ‘Outbursts & Temper Tantrums’ Category
Blog Posts by Elisabeth Wilkins, EP Editor
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Apr
07
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What do you do when you’re the teacher of an 8-year-old child who is spitting, cursing, screaming and threatening to kill you? You barricade yourself in a room and call the cops. Colorado boy Aiden threatened his teachers with a piece of sharpened wood trim he’d torn off the wall and said that he wanted to kill them. ”I wanted to make something sharp if they came out because I was so mad at them,” he said. “I wanted to whack them.” And when police arrived, he said, “Get away from me, you f—–s!”
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Aug
17
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 After my daughter was diagnosed as Gifted I still didn’t know what to think. Okay, well “gifted” — that sounds good, right? I had my 2 minutes of “Whew! What a relief!” But, just like a mother with an autistic child, or an ADD /ADHD child, I still didn’t know what to do and it really wasn’t okay.  I had been desperately trying to find out what was “wrong” with my child and now I had a label. Now I wanted to know how I could help. How could I keep her from getting in trouble at school due to boredom? How could I keep her challenged?
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Feb
11
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“That’s not fair!” These are the words that are hurled over my 6-year-old son’s shoulder after learning he hasn’t won the cooking game. We’re hosting a houseful of kids over the winter break and they’re taking over my kitchen, creating their own recipes and competing against each other, like on the popular cooking show Chopped.  | |||
