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4 year old with emotional manipulation

Hi --
My son who is 4 has just recently entered into this phase of having a very contrary attitude.
He's a very happy, bright, energetic kid. Very talkative, and well spoken for his age.

He's emotionally sensitive in general, but lately he is using his emotions in a manipulative way.
If he asks for something and is refused he says, "but! but! but!" and starts whimpering and forcing himself to cry.
It escalates into real tears and sadness and frustration.

Very often if I give him something he will find some part of it to complain about and says, "but I didn't want it like that!" and will become frustrated to tears over it.

On a heavier note he will refuse to do things on his own, like go pick out his clothes. He says, "but i want YOU to do it for me."
when before he wanted to do it by himself.

He cries very hard and physically pulls away when we have to leave a place he is not ready to leave.

Another thing he does is he dribbles urine in his underwear all the time. Sometimes I wonder if he's unaware, and other times I know he intentionally holds it to the point of leaking because he does not want to stop playing to go to the bathroom.

He goes through like 4-5 pairs of underwear a day. He still is not night-toilet trained and wears a pull-up to bed every night. (not too worried about that part)

Please let me know if you need any further information, and please only suggest ONE single homeopathic remedy that best fits at a time, or don't bother answering.

I want to respect your time and I appreciate your feedback, please show me the same respect!
 
  rom109 on 2019-12-11
This is just a forum. Assume posts are not from medical professionals.
Calc carb 30 and sil 6x 3 drops/pills three times a day.

Feedback after WEEK.
 
anuj srivastava 4 years ago
Hi Anuj

Thanks so much for your input.
I believe everything happens for a reason, and your answer did help direct me to the correct remedy. <3

I looked at Calc Carb in the materia medica on homeoint.org and the mental profile just did not fit my son.

He is very tall and slender, incredibly energetic and fast moving, and always HOT. I seriously can't keep clothes on him--he lives in his underwear only. LOL

So luckily the entry for Calc C also points out that Suph is so similar, yet opposite in the ways I mentioned above.
I thought that fit more closely especially since he wets his underwear all the time and does not seem to notice or care.

I apologize, I forgot to mention I am also only comfortable with hahnemanns 'single dose, wait, watch' method.

I gave him a single 30c dose last night before bed.
Today his same-aged cousin came over for a visit for a few hours. Normally in that situation he would have very thoroughly wet his underwear because he does not want to stop playing to go to the bathroom.

I'm happy to report that he actually has not EVEN ONE time wet his underwear today, AND he was significantly less argumentative and whiny.

He even ate his lunch with barely a trifle.

This is one relieved mamma!!

I'll go ahead and update again in a week, and if Suph fails after so long then I may take another look at Calc. C.

Thanks, and have a good weekend. :)
 
rom109 4 years ago
Hi there,

So it's been about a week for my son...

He was pretty consistent with the improvements I noted in my last post for about 3 days, and then started to regress a little. His underwear wetting is back to just about what it was originally, but I'd say that his emotional compliance has sustained improvement.

He still tries to force himself to cry and gets emotionally distraught over everything that I say "no" about.
But he is quicker to listen to reason and seems to have a better grasp when I tell him he can't freak out whenever he hears something he doesn't like-- "that's not how we use our emotions," I say.

I am not sure if I should keep waiting or if a redose is called for at this point.

what do you think?
 
rom109 4 years ago
Continue for a week more and give a feedback
 
anuj srivastava 4 years ago

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