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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sick today and my twelve year old DS told me to "stop whining and bitching about it."

A lot of people think it's terrible that he would speak to me like that- but because I'm his mom, I know his ADHD makes him impulsive but not mean.

It hurt my feelings and of course I talked with him about being respectful. He balances out some nastiness with some exceptionally nice behavior- he used my phone to text back and forth with his elderly grandmother quite bit this morning (she loved it) and he paid attention to our needy, affectionate dog.

DH is on work travel- and family lives far away, so no fancy brunches, but that's okay.

Being a parent is kind of hard and complicated sometimes- especially when kids are in some rough patches of tween and teen. I love my DS and I think he's a blessing (even on bad days). [/quote]

Sorry, but good moms don’t allow disrespect like that, nor do they write it off as being apart of a disease. Your son has major boundary and respect issues— and should have gotten the shit knocked out of him...simple as that[/quote]

I’m not the pp you were responding to, but...good moms knock the shit out of their kids? In that case, I guess I’m not a good mom either.[/quote]

If you allow your child to talk to you any kind of way, than no, you are not a good mother. Period. Teens and preteens are old enough to get slapped[/quote]

Yikes. Teaching your kids that the way to deal with others’ unacceptable behavior is to respond with violence?  No wonder we have such a violence problem in this country.[/quote]

Responding as a doormat is better?[/quote]

Black and white  - are those the only colors available?[/quote]

Here's the thing, I've raised 4 teens and not one has every come close to saying anything to me like what OP's son said to her, so forgive me for my knee jerk reaction. Her post pissed me off because it was justifying a condition in the name of abuse towards her--let alone on Mother's Day-- and yet, he was able to speak kindly to his grandmother and was weirdly applauded for it.

His disrespectful ways should have been nipped in the bud years ago. You teach people how to treat you. He does not respect his mother and it has nothing to do with his condition.

I am a firm believer that there is a time and place for everything. His telling me to stop whining and bitchin...at 12 years old...on Mother's Day....when I am not feeling well, would have been said time to get slapped. Parenting books and Dr. Spock be damned.[/quote]

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