Posted by Sabrina_0805 on February 13, 2006, at 4:24:08
In reply to Re: I'm at my wits end, posted by LegWarmers on February 12, 2006, at 15:32:29
Thank you crazy teresa and LegWarmers. I was starting to feel very alone with this.
I am tempted to try the reverse psychology, but he has been so rude to me I am afraid to be rude back and send a bad example. After my blow-up at him on Saturday morning, I fear I said some things that an 8 year old should not hear. Whether intentional or not, I withdrew myself from him this weekend and for the rest of Saturday he left me alone and was quite polite. By Sunday afternoon he had quite forgotten and was back to his old tricks.
Family tell me it is just a stage. This stage has lasted since he was a year old. So, I tend to agree this might just be his personality. Though he does not know his biological father at all, the lack of respect is identical.
And yes, a lot of time he thinks he is just being funny but after many, many patient discussions of appropriate times for this, he will do it anyway and then immediately pop an apology into to it thinking that makes it all better.
By the way, my son suffers severe ADHD but I do not believe this is in anyway responsible for a general lack of respect.
Thank you both for your insightful comments.
Sabrina
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