Kieran venting his frustration

Kieran sometimes has difficulty in expressing himself and he gets himself into such fits of anger. I remember once, sometime late last year, he got himself so worked up and angry over something his cousin did that he stomped upstairs to his bedroom and shut himself there, refusing to talk to anybody. He stewed for so long that he eventually forgot what he was angry about but just knew that he was angry.

Today, he got upset that Kiefer called him a "cheater" while they were playing a game of kick ball (He calls Kiefer a liar when Kiefer says something that he (Kieran) didn't see him do. He still doesn't fully understand the term liar, neither does he understand the use of the word cheater.) He got so upset that he took the toy binoculars that he was wearing and started whacking the car with it! (Thank goodness the binocs were rubberised. He caused only 1 tiny dent in his grandpa's car.) Once he did that, he realised that he was in big trouble. We went through a good 20mins (at least) of scolding and then talking him into owning up to his mistakes. We had to make him go to his grandpa to tell him what happened and to apologise. We refused to go with him and told him that we were upset with his behaviour and that we still love him nonetheless. We also told him that we will wait for him in our room while he goes into his grandpa's to apologise. The whole process took a really long time. He had to learn that he has to pay the consequences for his mistakes and that this was something really small compared to what he may face in future.