2007-10-21 11:41:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
He is insonsiderate of my feelings, such as not helping with dishes and chores and such. Do you think he might be antisocial?
2007-10-21 11:42:59 · update #1
He just sounds like a kid. Discipline him and maybe he'll improve a bit.
2007-10-21 11:44:13 · answer #1 · answered by Rat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Antisocial behavior is a WHOLE lot more pronounced than just this. You didn't specify how old your child is, but this sounds pretty typical of children, in particular preteens and teens.
I would suggest a psychological evaluation upon the following circumstances:
1. If he was destructive to his property (like, his room was messy because he punched holes through the drywall and he threw his laundry all over the place in a rage)
2. He routinely cursed, yelled or hit you
3. He had no friends or social contacts his age, and in fact seemed to have enemies (i.e., beat kids up or WAS beat up by kids frequently)
I think what you need to do is tighten the rules in the house and start giving him positive AND negative reinforcement. If he didn't clean up his room, for instance, take away his XBOX 360 (or whatever else he cherishes) until his room is clean. If his room stays consistently clean for a few weeks in a row, go out to see a movie in the theater (or pay for him and a friend to go if he's older and doesn't want to be seen with you in a movie theater, haha).
Try to set up a routine, too. My family knows Saturdays are cleaning days and we all clean Saturday during the day; by the evening we can all kick back and we rent a movie, make popcorn, go to a restaurant, take a walk in a park, etc etc.
2007-10-21 18:51:10 · answer #2 · answered by Maggie 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
My son has to have the most messiest room this side of the Mississippi! About every other month I can't stand it and go in and give it a good cleaning. When he's told to clean it it takes him 2 wks. and he just hides things! He is suppose to do dishes every 3rd day(we switch off) and if he doesn't do them he sometimes ends up doing 3 days worth of dishes and it might take him 2 days! ( I just make sure they are cleaned off and stacked) It took me awhile to just let them sit till he does them but I refuse to give in to him! He's 15 and I keep hoping that one day I won't have to tell him to clean and he'll do it on his own. (I'm not holding my breath though!) We have found out that grounding works and taking away a favorite privilage helps. He's not antisocial just a lazy sloppy boy!Good Luck!!
2007-10-21 19:08:31 · answer #3 · answered by Steffie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. He's just young. Maybe he doesn't understand how hard this kind of stuff is to manage alone and he's a little immature to understand why you want him to help.
He might grow out of it. But just punish him if he doesn't do it. Take away a privilege or something and he'll soon learn.
2007-10-21 19:35:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Antisocial is that he uses people to get what he wants. He sounds like he's just being a kid.
2007-10-21 18:50:00 · answer #5 · answered by nursesr4evr 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
sounds like a teenager to me
2007-10-21 19:11:42 · answer #6 · answered by vis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, i'd say he was just a bit lazy, tell him to clean his room
2007-10-21 18:49:29 · answer #7 · answered by The French Connection 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
he is a normal kid , but it sounds like he needs a good dose of discipline....he,ll only be anti-social if you let him be
2007-10-21 19:01:22 · answer #8 · answered by justanother1 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋