When your seven year old acts like a total jerk...

[Anonymous]

GRRRRR...

OK, I know I'm the grownup, but I guess that's why I'm putting this here instead of telling my kid outright that he's acting like a total asshole in exactly those terms.

My son is driving me NUTS!!! With the NOT LISTENING!!!! And the BOUNDARY TESTING!!!

We have rules. We have consequences. We pick our battles and are generally sane reasonable people who are decent parents. Just needed to vent, and perhaps commiserate.

What I really want to do is scream "QUIT BEING AN ASSHOLE! and have a beer, but see above about not being a terrible parent.

[Anonymous]

amen.

[Anonymous]

I'm right there with you this week, only with my five year old.

[Anonymous]

I have a daughter and could have written your post. Oh, the joys of parenting....

[Anonymous]

Ms. Amen here. I thought of you this evening when putting my little you-know-what to bed.

[Anonymous]

I know, I know. Until I was a parent I didn't realize that little children could be jerks...

Today I just lost it and told my 6 year old DD that "right now I just don't like you at all. You are being really mean to me and that is NOT okay. It makes me not want to be with you" It actually helped because I think she spent the rest of the (silent) car ride to her soccer game thinking about what I said. She has been much kinder and easier to be with the rest of the day.

[Anonymous]

that's my 5 year old son! I liked him last week but this week, no comment!!

[Anonymous]

AH wait until THIRTEEN!

[Anonymous]

Definitely Been there. DH would agree too!

Just a thought - Sept - Oct can be some of the worst months of the year for bringing out the worst. Transition to school, more homework? less sleep? fall allergies? not eating great

To be clear - Not excuses but if anything can reduce how much of a monster they are - it helps. And if they can figure out their triggers, helps them too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Definitely Been there. DH would agree too!

Just a thought - Sept - Oct can be some of the worst months of the year for bringing out the worst. Transition to school, more homework? less sleep? fall allergies? not eating great

To be clear - Not excuses but if anything can reduce how much of a monster they are - it helps. And if they can figure out their triggers, helps them too.

OP here. This is so very true. The beginning of the school year is always an adjustment.