7 year old is totally out of control
My 7year old son is getting worse by the day! I'd be hear all day listing the problems I'm having with him. He steals all the time where ever I go and also from myself. Because of this I left him in the car 1 time and he took the handbreak of the car and it rolled into a wall. He's on his 3rd school at the moment, and I have to go and speak to them this Tuesday to discuss his behaviour and he's only been in the school a month. At swimming class today he was exposing himself to the other children. He refuses do to anything that I ask him to do. He once set my house on fire, another time when he was 5 he climed out of the window of the house and got on a bus and went off travelling, took everyone 4 hours to find him. I've been to the doctor many times, waiting times to see specialists is very long. Social Services are involved but to be honest they haven't done a lot to help. I've tried to ignore the bad behaviour and just praise the good, but that didn't work in his own words, "now i can do what ever i want and no one tells me off!! it's great" He started doing Tek Wan Do I thought that would help with his behaviour but he just fights with other children. He doesn't have any friends cause he's always so mean to them. I also have a 4 year old daughter and she is a little angel. I used to think it was because I was a bad mother, but they both get treated the same. To be honest I proberly spend more time on my son than I do my daughter because I can't leave him alone for a second for fear of what he'll do next. He's from a stable home, he never wants for anything, he's not spoilt with toys, he gets a lot of attention playing, doing jigsaw's reading stories. I just don't know where I went wrong with him. I'm living in ireland and there's not any summer programm's of any kind for children with behaviour problems. I've been looking on the web trying to find somewhere that he could go for the summer holidays but as of yet I've had no luck. I've tried ringing a few places in America but none of them have any programms for just the summer for his age group, there's lots of boarding schools for full time but I really don't think I'd be able to send him away full time. If anybody has any information I'd be very grateful to hear from you. My biggest fear at the moment that my little boy is soon going to grow up and I'm afraid for the his future and what he might do or become.
I've listed a lot of bad things about my son and I just want to say a few positive things about him. Even with his problems he really is a very sweet kid, I'm always getting hugs and kisses from him, he'll go and pick flowers from me. There's nothing more I love than him and me curling up on the sofa and watching cartoons. When he puts his mind to it he get brilliant grades in school he's very intelligent. I just want him to be a happy little boy and enjoy his time as a child before he has to face the world. I just don't know how to do make that happen.