this week started a new "phase" in my oldest son's... development. since going to the park and playing with all sorts of new kids, he's started biting. out of anger, apparently. the boys share a room b/c quite bluntly our house has 3 bedrooms and in the next week or so maya will be here and i don't trust in their judgement to behave well enough for one of them to A) share a room WITH her, or B) be in her room and not destroy everything since they SO love to rip, shred, paint, etc with whatever and on whatever they can b/c they get bored in the first 5-10 minutes it takes them to fall asleep. right now, though, i'm seriously contemplating moving all her furniture into another room. somewhere i just don't know where!
aiden has bitten tristan twice now. this second time for no reason, other than i told him to "back out of my face some." he really loves to get nose to nose with you all the time, and i just can't handle that. i hate it. with a passion. i like my personal bubble and bluntly he's going to have to learn about bubbles eventually anyways, why not now. they went to play with their toys, and tristan came out from playing with aiden with blood quite literally dripping down his back. it's awful. it really looks like hannibal lector tried to eat him. i don't know what to do. aiden never does it until THE second i turn my back to make lunch, or go potty or something. just a second. i can't watch them 24/7. it's humanly impossible to watch thing one and thing two all the time. you just can't, and trust me i've tried to the point of making myself so tired i couldn't even manage the energy to get up to answer the door.
the first time this happened was b/c i asked them to go into their room while i went potty. to explain, they can't be left alone for more than a second to start with b/c they just destroy everything. they're very mischievous little boys. tristan takes the kitchen and pulls everything out of the cabinets and off the counters, aiden takes the living room and the kitchen counters. this happens most every time i've tried to leave them unattended for whatever reason. i've tried everything i know and unless there's a second person there it just doesn't work. i've even tried telling them to sit on the couch and i'll be right back, go on the stairs where they can't see me and watch them. 5 minutes later, they're still there not a peep. 10 minutes, nothing. ok, i can go up and go potty now. yeah, right. i get back down and my whole house is destroyed. from top to bottom. anywho, when i got done going potty i told them to come on and tristan once again had blood on his back.
i know it's normal for him to feel jealous, and upset / angry over a new baby, but it's now causing my youngest son physical damage. i know already he'll not be allowed alone around the baby, neither of them would anyways, but this just solidifies the "AT ALL." someone please help me! aiden was doing so well for the longest time and was behaving nicely, but now it's like he's possessed. i know all kids typically go through a biting stage, but do they do it this hard??
modified to add that when i ask aiden why he did it, he says that "tristan kicked him" but i don't know whether or not to believe it, because aiden will tell you tristan hurt him to try to put the blame on tristan.
