Combativeness in 3 y.o.
My son is 3 1/2. When an authority figure (teacher, parent, etc.) asks him or tells him to do something, he gets bent out of shape and throws huge tantrums. He flies off the handle and screams, kicks, hits, pinches and throws things. He's to the point where they are going to boot him out of preschool. The teachers asked him the other day not to climb up the slide backwards. He wouldn't listen. When she removed him, he hit her in the face, knocking off her glasses. He's kicked, hit and has thrown things at teachers. Everything is fine if it's his idea. If you ask him to do something he doesn't want to do, there's a problem. We've done time outs, toy time outs, and gently holding him while he's trying to hit us.
I do not spank my child, even though sometimes I feel it would do him a world of good (even though it really won't).
My Mother spoils him to pieces. She jumps at his every whim and never gives him any alone playtime. She also cooks to order what he wants when he is at her house if he doesn't want to eat what everyone else is eating. We do not do that at my house. I ask her not to spoil him and she says "I do not know what you're talking about".
I am going through a divorce now and it is an adjustment period for all of us. This behavior started waaay before anything was brewing at home.
Is there a good correction technique to use?
We do not have any health insurance, so going for an eval. is out.
He does not eat dairy or junk food.
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