17 year old son going through worst phase ever - acting like a rooster for almost a year. Please help?

Question

My 17 year old son is out of control. He was never with the popular crowd but when he turned 16 it has been all down hill. When he turned 16 he began referring to himself as the Red Rooster. It is unbelievable and almost indescribable, he does a rooster strut and pecks his nose whenever & wherever he walks, occasionally singing out "c***-a-doodle-do" in a horrid screech. To top it all off he has his hair spiked with a large red protruding ridge in the center of his head.

I've tried to reason with him and explain what he is doing is ridiculous. I can't even go out in public with him anymore. Mind you, this has been going on non-stop for over a year. All he can say for himself is "It shows everyone I can work with my limited ability" - I don't even know what that means.

What would you do if your child started behaving like a human rooster?

Answer 1

This question is so out there, I'm not sure if it's real or if you're just trolling. If ypu're for real, you need to take him to a psychologist ASAP. He may or may not be clinically crazy, but he may be doing this because he needs some attention. Therapy could help you get to the bottom of why he's acting out.

Answer 2

If he's doing his school work & whatever else is required of him around the house I would say it's probably a phase & nothing to worry about. If there's other problems with it, then you may have to sit him down & find out what's really behind his behavior. Perhaps his friends encourage him to act like a clown & this makes him feel good about himself because of all the attention. Sooner or later the behavior will have to change. He will be 18 & either going to college or to work so be gentle but persistant & keep on loving him.

Answer 3

Hmm, if this is going on for a year, maybe he needs to talk to a therapist or something. Does he do this when he's in school? Does he have any friends at all? It makes me think of that movie Little Miss Sunshine, where the teenage boy stopped talking, and wrote everything down, just to prove he could, and he was going to do this until he got into flight school. But anyway, another idea, videotape him, and then show him how ridiculous he looks. But think about it this way, maybe this is better than him trying to kill himself or something. If he won't talk to someone about this, to figure out how to change, then maybe you should talk to someone, to figure out constructive things you can do to get him to change, or get him through this. If it continues past high school and gets really bad, I'd be concerned.

Answer 4

Ignore him as much as possible.
Do some research on roosters, threir traits and charicteristics, find out why he compares himself to a rooster and not, say a cow, horse, dog or cat.
Be outlandishly humorous with him, instead of bringing him a plate of whatever you cooked for dinner, bring him chicken feed(make sure it isn't anything that would harm him) and let him eat as a rooster would.
Cook chicken every night for a weeek or two. Bake it, fry it, grill it. Tell him you brought some of his friends over and decided to cook them.

He wants a negative reaction from you-and you are giving it to him, laugh at him, when he starts acting foolish, not to provoke but laugh and walk away.

Research the Rooster!
Take pictures of him, as the rooster, hang them around the house(replace other photos of him with these), take one with you in your purse, put one on your visor in the car(only when he's around(let him think you care).

Stop responding negatively and the negative behavior will cease.

Answer 5

1. A 17 yr old is hardly a child-he's nearly an adult-just months or weeks away.

2. So this is your biggest problem with his behavior-no drugs, stealing etc.? Ummm, could be worse.

"It shows everyone I can work with my limited ability" Have you been guilty of accusing him of having a limited ability-or have others?

I think he's just trying to figure out who he is and I think teenagers are trying trying to see if they'll be loved by their parents even when they're outrageous. This too shall pass.

"Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you
would cry,So just look at them and sigh and know they love
you." CSN &Y

Also, remember things you did as a teen were seen as outrageous by our parents-as tame as they seem today. The key is guidance, not control. You have less of that, the older they get. But, help guide him to adulthood.

Answer 6

honestly,
i would laugh at them emensley.

I went through weird phazes, and as long as it was not physically harmfull, my parents would just laugh at me.
I was never with the popular crowd either.
NEVER.
I was made fun of, beat up, even fell in with the BAD crowd.
But now I have grown and I'm more mature, and I still seem to make my parents wonder.


You see my screenname,
well that's actually what my friends call me,
a tag name.

Let your son have his tag name, as long as he is not PHYSICALLY hurting himself or other's whats the harm.
at least in public, if your laughing, then it's not that weird.

You got a weird kid,
just enjoy the suprises that he has instore for you.


It's kinda like that one kid on the movie HOOK, the rooster guy that takes peter pans place.

Answer 7

He's just trying to make a name for himself. My brother, although he's not acting like a rooster, is incredibly weird. Anyways, as the old saying goes; "Boy's will be Boys (whether we like it or not)!"

Answer 8

He sounds pretty cool! I myself am The Pig!

Oink Oink!!

Answer 9

First off, who does he take after, the most. Then, see if he is on drugs.

Answer 10

Ignore or laugh at his behavior. The more you show that he is getting to you the more outlandish he will act.