My Drama King...

Aaron has always been my loving little boy.  I can't count how many times he says, "I love you so much Mom" in a day.  He's so animated, articulate, and such a sweet kid most of the time.  He really can melt anyone's heart that he comes in contact with.

With that comes the flip side to the coin as well.  He's always been very dramatic and can say things that hurt my feelings very deeply.  Things like:

"You're breaking my heart Mom"

"My heart really wants Video Games"

"Nobody loves me"

"I'm just a bad boy"

I feel so guilty as a mom because I can only deduce that he really feels like this because of the way I'm treating him.  When I was a kid I really felt this way sometimes.  I look at how I treat him though, and I just don't understand where he's getting it from.  If he does 1 thing that I need to correct it's the end of the world.

Lately he hasn't been going to school as well, so in order to get him to go to school I did three things.  1st I drew hearts on his hands after reading the kissing hand.  That way he knows that I was coming back for him if he got sad.  Then we started giving him smiley faces in the morning for everything he did right.  This helps when he says, "I'm always bad" and "Nobody loves me" I can show him the chart and say look how good you were this morning!  This really helped him make a turn for the better.  He realized when he did one thing wrong, 99% of the time he was a good boy!!  Then we made a star chart.  For every time he went to school without crying he gets a star.  After 10 stars he gets a prize.  He loves this too!

Now we only have meltdowns rarely.  He still wakes up on the wrong side of the bed, but at least he's learning how to become a well behaved and happy little boy.