Oh my! I just got a phone call from my son's school. He's 6 yrs old, and apparently he got into somewhat of an altracation with another child. A girl no less! She refuses to play with him, so he told her he was going to take a chainsaw to school tomorrow and kill her! OMG! I explained to the school that he doesn't know how to get his frustrations out, and when he gets hurt emotionally, he tends to make threats. I also offered to talk to the parents of this little girl to assure them that not only do we not own a chainsaw, that my son will absolutely not speak to thier daughter or any other child, or teacher involved in this manner again. How do I deal with this at home???? Grounding him is not going to work (consequence given too late), he's already had most of his stuff taken away from him for talking back to me. This child is not a bad kid. We can go for three weeks with not one episode, then BOOM, the good child is gone, and the devil returns. He is medicated. Twice a day. It's works well. I do behavioral therapy with him at home. Works well. I have an appt. with the school phyciologist to help him. I am going to see his Pediatrician on Tuesday and will discuss this with her. I'm scared to tell hubby (his step dad), 'cos he thinks my son is a bully anyway, any suggestions on how to deal with (this other than letting him know that mommy is very dissappointed in his verbal actions and sad to hear about what he's said)?

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