Are you at your wits end with your child?
i am.
so this is the situtation:
my five year old boy was away for 4 weeks w/ his biological father for summer visitation. this dude is a deadbeat, still lives with his parents, my boy sleeps on the sofa-bed with him, they smoke cigarettes @ him which contributed to making my son's bronchitis flare up. i took him to the dr. today and she said he's asthmatic. we don't smoke cigarettes! anyway...that's not the point...that just furiates me....
my point is that my son is TOTALLY disrespecting me. before he left it was like this, but not that bad. now he just pushes my buttons. i'm talking to him nicely and he starts to yell at me. he shoved me off of him today, like get off me bleep. i just feel that he doesn't care for me anymore because his deadbeat "father" put all sorts of thoughts into his head. and i'm not going to interrogate my son about it...that's the last thing he needs. poor guy gets ripped out of my house every other week to rule another house without discipline
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3 minutes ago
while at my house we discipline our children. we have sticker charts for good behavior and punishments that fit the crime. so he goes back and forth of the two atmospheres and i feel he's got enough on his plate that i shouldn't put him in any hot seat about who's saying what about whom. but he's just pushing me. he is not looking at me, being rude, telling me no, just not being my boy. he's being my mean boy. i don't know what to do. what i feel like doing is raising my voice and punishing him for talking back to me, but that wont work because he wins if he pisses me off-because that's what he's trying to do. he's trying to see how far he can get with me to see if i can blow up on him. which i am not going to do because that's not the right thing to do. i calmly talk to him, while i'm losing it inside! i don't know if you have ever felt this way with your child. i never have. he's five. i love him dearly and don't want to be stuck in this pattern of him being rude to me
0 seconds ago
because i am not going to let my child run the show. i'm the boss and he wants to be the boss. it's such a difficult situation that i don't know how to deal with. what brought me here was that i was going to help him clean his room, he shares one with his 2 1/2 yr. old sister. so we were all going tohelp. but he started up and i was gonna lose it so i took an extended time out to cool off. i'll go help him now because if he doesn't clean his room he's not going to go to the park tomorrow like we had said we were gonna do if we clean it. ahhhh! help
2007-08-01
12:36:10
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pwrgrlmanda
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