So today's been a hard day. I'm going to top it all off. I'm now sitting at the laundromat because I forgot to wash the dog beds and they went to the groomers so we don't want clean dogs and smelly beds. Anyway, my son got in trouble today at school for hitting a friend and spitting. He's six. We've been through this before and it's like we'll get on a really good routine and then it goes back to it. So try to sit and talk with him and figure out what's going on. You know, have compassion and empathy and try to figure it out. But he's just been really pushing his boundaries lately. And then to top it all off, my husband gets like really stressed out about it. And yeah, it doesn't make it easier for any of us. So anyway, just needed an event about that. Hope you had a better day. Any advice about my six-year-old is welcome.

I would say how easy it is to be only the orange cat. Maybe or is he wanting to do hair, don't think that's anything easy there. If he's not and it's just in school, there's something going on and he's upsetting.

OK this may be a controversial opinion but I think that's normal yes you're doing the right thing by course correct and having conversations about behavior and letting him know about boundaries I think that's all beautiful and great but I don't know from my experience my son kind of went through the same thing around that same age where he would like randomly hit a friend and test the boundaries and then like see how much authority essentially like personal authority he can have

I honestly think it's a developmentally normal I obviously don't know the context like if he's exhibiting this kind of behavior of cross multiple environments consistently and if it's actually affecting like quality of life and whatever but I think it's like if those things are not happening and it's not like happening all the time everywhere at all times and causing distress then I think he's just doing the normal like testing the boundaries behavior and it's just a hard time sometimes

There are definitely very clear wrong ways to parent right like obviously like abusive behaviors or wrong way but there's not really clear right ways to parent and so I'm sure you're doing the best you can and I think your sons probably gonna be fine I think this is just a normal phase that he's in