I’m I Wrong

Yesterday me and my separated husband had a disagreement. The disagreement was that he didn’t like that I was intervening while he was disciplining our son who has autism. I work in the field of behavioral therapy and I’m an advocate for individuals with mental health challenges. I believe there I better ways to discipline children without using any aggressive methods. I was trying to tell my husband that if you approach our son in a certain way that you are reinforcing a behavior that doesn’t benefit him in the long run. My husband didn’t take the time to stop and listen to me. Instead he raised his voice in front of me and our kids. I wasn’t raising my voice throughout this and just walked away with kids and headed home. I didn’t have anything else to say to him. The kids live with me and he helps with caring for them while I work. Am wrong for intervening when he was disciplining our son?
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Not totally wrong but when you jump in during a discipline even when you dont agree unless its straight up abuse, also shows the child they dont have to listen to the other parent. Also that can frustrate the other parent and cause more anger/frustration rather than side barring the convo which solves nothing.

What was the discipline? You meantion aggressive, I would intervene if anyone idc who they are was aggressive to my child

What happens is when his younger sibling is having a tantrum he will yell. Usually in that moment when he’s yelling, I tell him to use a different behavior than the yelling back-and-forth. My husband went in and decided just to grab on him and yell at him and that’s not helping the situation. It’s making it worse. Otherwise, my husband is going to be reinforcing that yelling every time the younger sibling has a tantrum. I’m trying to decrease that. My son wasn’t doing anything wrong and this is how my husband was reacting to towards him. I wasn’t trying to tell my husband to discipline our son because our son wasn’t doing anything wrong. He was just reacting to his sister‘s feelings in that moment. Which can be difficult for someone who has autism. I have been working with our son to find behaviors that are beneficial for him in that moment, instead of the yelling. My husband didn’t want to listen to that unfortunately.

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