He'd be perfectly content to just sit around and be depressed and mope and play video games. I don't accept that behavior from him, so he gets really mad and takes his temper on out the nearest inanimate object (or sometimes the dog ...) We have a standing Rule that either one of us is allowed to call for a Time Out if he needs to calm down or think about the issue ... the catch is that he's not allowed to play video games during Time Out. I think he forgot about the Time Out Rule, because he doesn't use it. I don't use it either, but I would rather sit and think together on a problem, and I'm pretty quick at coming up with solutions.
