Tears and Tantrums

The boys are pretty emotional. Kyle has always thrown tantrums, and I mean BIG tantrums. These often involve, crying shouting, slamming doors, kicking walls and doors, throwing stuff and hitting his brother. I don't know anyone else who's ten year old does this. The smallest thing can set him off, like making a mistake in his homework or not getting his own way.

Sometimes he can go for months without having a big episode and other times it's a daily occurrence although "moody strops" are constant.

This is Kyle crying because I wouldn't allow him to eat some Lucky Charms cereal, which I'd ordered with the grocery shopping. After reading a warning on the packet saying that they could cause an adverse reaction to children's behaviour, I decided it wasn't a great idea, to give them to my already hyper kids.

Aiden gets upset and inconsolable over things like, his team (arsenal) losing or not being the best at something. Aiden has to be the winner. he's a very sore loser. He's not great at the whole team playing thing, which is a shame as he plays for a local football team. He likes being in goal the best, and we figured out, during his assesment that it's because, he can focus on his achievement rather than the team's. They play a match every Sunday and Aiden often stands on the pitch sobbing, as they're often losing. We keep threatening to stop him from playing but he loves it.

Here he is with his football cards. He has hundreds of them! I'm not sure what all the crying about here. He probably couldn't find a player he was looking for.