Tru’s temper has been getting a little quick on the draw when he thinks someone is making fun of him. So today we tried working on alternative strategies for when he knows he’s getting mad. His base reaction is to stick his tongue out or spit at someone. That’s bad enough, but his “spider sense” about when people are making fun of him isn’t quite fully developed. Either that or he’s paranoid.

Anyway, I was coaching him on learning to stop when he felt himself getting mad, and then telling the person he’s mad at to “please stop because it’s hurting my feelings”. I told him that I was going to tease him and make him mad and that he had to try to stay calm and ask me to stop.

Instead what I got was, “Please stop or I’ll have to call you underpants head!”