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[quote=Anonymous]So I’m mostly just going to sympathize. My oldest has ADHD and is around the age of your oldest. We worked so hard on kind words and manners when they were younger- calm reminders, positive reinforcement, the works and it sunk in because they have beautiful manners with everyone else. It’s not that they don’t know what to do they are actively choosing not to do it. My child tells me constantly that I love their younger sibling more, that younger child is the favorite and any correction is now simply because I don’t love them as much as DC2. It got really bad when my younger child had some significant health issues that have stabilized but will be life long. I feel like I’ve lost all perspective at this point in time. Very likely I’m at least part of the problem. We were doing a ton to help the younger one for a while and I’m still really emotional over all of it. I obviously love both my kids a lot and frankly have more in common with my older one but we are in a bad cycle and their dad has been working a lot so neither of them is getting much 1:1 time.

I do think the PP who are suggesting 1:1 time are right. I need to find a way to do better too. Stay strong and keep loving your kids; I hope it works out for both of us.
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