Parents Terrified Of Violent 9-Year-Old Son Who Bites & Attacks Others
Young parents, Sara and Richard, have revealed how they are living in terror of their nine-year-old son who bites, kicks and attacks his own parents and siblings, including threatening his older brother with a knife when he was just four. They say they expect him to end up in jail when he grows up.
The schoolboy features on a programme, My Violent Child: Tearing Us Apart.
Richard told Wales Online: “From a very young age he was very aggressive. When he was about four, he held a knife to Casey and threw bricks at Casey. We’ve had police at the house where he’s thrown brick – a child ended up injured and needing dental treatment. I expect for Toby in his teens to be locked up, we’re expecting that. Because he doesn’t care.”
The couple have three other children – Casey, 10, Corey, seven, and Jacob, four – and have been unable to control Toby’s behaviour since he was small, with no clue what can set him off on a violent outburst.
Sara said: “Absolutely anything sets Toby off, it can be anything as daft as two items of food touching on his plate, a noise, a smell or something he sees – it can be anything. He’s physically abusive, he’s mentally abusive, he really gets to you – to the point that he makes me want to cry sometimes. Sometimes I just let him pinch me and hit me and then he’ll calm down and sometimes he does. I don’t want to live on edge every day when he wakes up, I should be able to enjoy being his mum.”
Sometimes his behaviour is so bad the couple are too scared to leave him alone with his other brothers and the pair have even been on the verge of splitting up.
Richard said: “It has driven us to the point where we could have parted ways many times. When there’s no more you can do for each other and we’re struggling, it gets to the point where it would be easier to turn and walk away.”
The show brings in parenting expert Jane Evans who tries to get to the route of the problem while encouraging the parents to develop their bond with Toby.
Sara admits that having her two eldest children so close together caused her great stress but as she starts to take on Jane’s advice – which includes being more tactile with Toby – she sees her son become calmer more quickly.
She also emphasises the importance of Richard spending quality time with his family.
The family then spend a day at the farm together and the couple admit that they are beginning to see big improvements in their son.
Sara said: “It is early days but I hope that if I persevere with it then we’ll get results down the line and I think that day will come.”
Source: Mirror
This is what happens when koboko is absent in raising a child lolz
Dis white children are just a problem. May God help dem.
They should send him to Niger
I pray the new way they r bonding with him will
yield positive result. Na waooo!
I pray the new wway helps
Is high tym u guys start whipping dem wit cane
At least hes getn help.Sad.
Hope he does not change
I trust 9ja parents
All these things only happen abroad. Take him to the police station in 9ja and lock him up for two day n he will confess,jesus is lord
Dis one na story for d gods. Soldiers no dey for their counry abi?
Naaaaaaa I trust my mother land
Hope the new way works
He will change. I think he wants attention from his parents. They should spend more time with him doing things he love
I trust Nigeria his case is jst a minor one
Trust naija parents, with variety of ‘igbati’ & ‘ekanna’ you go wise up one time
Ooohhh! I hope things get better for them. I can imagine how horrific every day life will be.
Bring him over here, the sight of whip will put his senses in the normal place.
I pray the new way help
get koboko and wipe the he’ll out from him.
It’s a scary thing
Mtcheew.Bring him down to naija let’s introduce cane and koboko to him