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Date Posted: 10:13:28 04/15/03 Tue
Author: tutter13 (Melissa)
Subject: Ok, I have a couple of things I need help with. . .(m)

For starters Jon seems to cry a lot for little things. Something isn't being done exactly *how* he wants or *when* he wants. He whines and/or cries about it. He does this with his friends too. I know they are gonna get sick of it and not want to play with him. Also, DH and I are getting frustrated with it. It just seems like he'll cry at the drop of a hat for no reason sometimes. Any thoughts on why this could be and/or how to help him overcome it? We try to explain to him that he can talk about things without crying, and that he doesn't need to cry for everything, and about his friends are going to not want to play with him if he always is like that, but it just doesn't seem to fix. He understands when we talk to him, but then is back to it again in no time. For example, I had just had the talk with him yesterday while outside with his friends. I told him that if he wants to cry for nothing then he can go inside instead. If he'd rather play outside then he needs to learn that everything doesn't always happen his way and to just have fun with his friends. He says ok, but not 2 mins. later he starts to cry about nothing. Help.

My second issue is that Jon asked DH last night if he was stupid. DH told him no and asked him why. He told DH that there are two kids at school that pick on him and he tells them to leave him alone but they won't. How do I help him handle this? We try to tell him it's ok to ask the teacher for help dealing with it, but he doesn't. He's more comfortable coming to us. Ok, I can understand that, but we want to encourage him to help himself sometimes because we can't always come to do it. Plus, one of these kids that's picking on him is the teachers son. How do I go about dealing with this? I don't want my son feeling stupid by other boys picking on him, but I don't want to just do it for him. He usually plays with the school age kids in the afternoon (they come for after school care), and now I know why - they treat him like an equal.

Anyhow, any thoughts you can offer me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a bunch.

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