HELP...Sons
By angelsdozens
@angelsdozens (29)
United States
September 19, 2008 10:35pm CST
I am 33 and the mother of 4. I have 3 sons and a daughter and I do not even know where to begin asking for help! My youngest son is 11 and he is really pushing my buttons. He flat out ignores what I say or he will go directly against it. I tell him to go to bed, everyone is already in bed, and he will go into a stare down. Dead silence and stares me in the eye like he is daring me. I take away his computer time, I take away his TV time, and he only acts out more. I am really at my wits end with him. At 11 he is already too big to physically punish him, which quite honestly my kids know I can't stand. What do I do to get him to listen?
1 response
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
20 Sep 08
My 6yo pulls similar bs. I have no advice on getting them to listen. I try to explain even lil everyday things to her and she sticks her fingers in her ears. Though you know they say take this or that away to get them to listen and do as they should. But I've found that rather than taking things away finding them other things they like to do sometimes works better. My 6yo has been jumping every so often for a trip to the public library. As I won't dare take all of them with as they are soo loud I don't need to get booted from there. But she'll point out the good things she's doing and I think that's a start.
Though I will say I overhead another mom say she got rid of the TV and her kids just have a radio to listen to because they couldn't stop the drama over the TV.
GL!
