How should I discipline my five year old son?
Every kid is like this at 5. They can be brats. Most likly he has not been abused but is emulating behavior, moniter what he watches and friends. If you still suspect abuse take him to a councelor who specilizes in abuse, they can try and work to find out what might of or might not have happened. This will sound odd, but maybe sign him up for a karate class. Most classes have programs deigned for little kids. There your kid will either start to behave or become very strong from doing pushups. Also many dojos have systems where in order to test mom or dad needs to clear off on behavior, otherwise you don’t test. In my dojo we give the kids virtue systems where when you show like courage, respect self discipline you get a stripe. Though you have to continue to show the virtue or you will lose the stripe. This worked very well for a little girl who used to be a terror it is set up so they can suceed, and one time when she couldn’t test w/ friends brought behavior way up.
