Our Family’s Story and Why I Do This
When my son Owen was 3, he started to have trouble in his preschool. His teacher said that she’d always been able to figure out an effective consequence for bad behavior for her students – but not this guy. When he was 4, the trouble increased. He was referred to as “spicy” and I was asked what I gave him for breakfast. Not a great trajectory, so far. And yes, he was difficult to parent at home. He was rather destructive, very emotional, and had some interesting play patterns. The pediatrician said “he’s a boy.” I knew, because by now I have seen other 4 year old boys, that what I was seeing was different. By the third time I heard the “it’s a boy” line, I was kind of angry. I was really beginning to think something was wrong with my son, and the doctor was not going to help me figure it out.
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