Excuse Me

Liam is going through a stage where he acts out his anger and frustration by hitting and saying, "you're stupid." We've tried a variety of approaches. Liam was acting out tonight. I was having a talk with him about how he could say to Kalian (or me or Chris) that he was mad. I was in the middle of my "lecture" when Liam started saying, "excuse me" - he often says that in polite ways but also to avoid dealing with his behavior, so I told him that I needed to finish talking first. Finally, he blurted out, "Excuse me, Mommy, I need to go pee pee and then you can finish talking about feelings" and he went into the bathroom. Uh, he put me in my place.