Ready for the In-Laws to head home!
All in all my in-laws being around the last few months has not been bad at all. It has been kinda nice to see them, it make sit so much better they are staying with their daughter. Trust me I would lose it if they were at my place. My MIL re-arranged her daughters dinning room switching tables and all this stuff while she was at work. I give to my SIL she has stayed calm and kept her cool.
They have been nice and pretty easy to deal with. I also am going with SS to visit them in July without my SO because he can not take off work. Anyway why I am ready for them to go home.
I have no idea why or what caused all this but SS's attitude the last three weeks had been completely ridiculous. SO and I are both getting to our wit ends. Here is just a few things he has been doing....
1. Decided last week he did not need to do his homework when he got home. Yes limited time because of sports but he thought he could just do it early the next morning before school. I had no clue he had homework, SO had no clue he had homework. He always tells us and does it right when he gets home. After the game he went for ice cream with team and g-parents. If I had known I would made him go home. Next day when I see SO, I tell him and he was pissed because apparently SS had enough time to go outside and play before his sports. I was pissed too because he lied to my face and basically tried to pull on over on me and SO.
2. Trying to dictate to me and SO how he does things. We needed to run the those store and he was in the other room heard me talking to SO. SS says "Do I have to go, why can't me and daddy just stay here." All this from the other room. I flat out said you are going.
3. Literally claims he is forgetting everything. His job when he gets home make sure the cats on other side of gate before daddy lets dog in. Decided to drag his feet and did not do it and said he forgot. Was suppose to turn in his dental exam record to his teacher for school records. Again he forgot.
4. His overall attitude, like he can do whatever he wants. We were at SIL's house and he was kinda ok. Had to repeatedly tell him to come eat, trying to show off and seak all the attention from everyone (yes I get it I do), he tried to hide behind of shelf in the process what making the shelf tip over a little. He knows better than all this he is not usually this bad.
5. This morning, I was holding my cat the one that whines literally to no end when I went in and woke him up. I have done this before saying "bubbles" wants to wake you up. Of course he got snippy. I left and said get out of bed he took forever (yes that is age thing). As he is walking to the bathroom to get ready bubbles is still howling to no end and as SS walks by him he pretend kicks him the face because he is annoyed. While yes I may have annoyed him originally, you do not treat animals like that in our home.
Honestly there is just so much more. When SO gets on him, when I say stuff to him, it is just a blank stare as if we have two heads and are stupid people talking to him. His complete lack of respect for me, for SO, for stuff in general lately. The overall attitude the last several weeks. Trust me it is not like he is spending all the time in the world with g-parents and they are not doing anything really over the top crazy for him. IDK. I am about to lose my shit and flip on his little butt, and SO is in the same boat. We took away tv for like two days over the weekend, and tablet all weekend for the homework thing. The lying part he had to go pull weed outside. SO and I had both been warning him if he attitude did not improve there would be consequences. Nope none of that mattered as yesterday with the store and everything else he was worse, this morning with the cat worse. I have no clue what else to do. I do not blame the in-laws and know this is not their fault. Something triggered in him when they got here.
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It sounds like the first
It sounds like the first round of puberty, in all honesty. He probably is super tired and in pain that he can't describe. Is he putting on weight or has he gone through a growth spurt? Seriously, it all just sounds like puberty, especially the blank stares and "I know better than you".
Has he had a chance to spend any fun one-on-one time with his dad? Has dad had a puberty talk with him? If not, that needs to happen ASAP. If you can leave the house for a day, or even an overnight, that moght help, too. I knows my YSS wasn't thrilled for some time that I was always around when DH had the boys, so I try to duck out on Saturdays so they can have "guy time".
My son started that crap when
My son started that crap when he was about that age... he had just turned 11... but I was never one to tolerate it - and I very clearly put my son in his place, explaining that he was not on my level, he doesn't get a say in how things will happen, and that if I want his opinion on something, I will ask him - any lip/attitude was immediately dealt with as undesirable behavior - and honestly he stopped that crap until he was 15, where he had 1 blowup - I dealt with it - he hasn't so much as talked back since then. He'll be 16 this summer.
It'll be a cold day in He11 when a child in my home disregards a very clear command. I don't make requests.... and if I do, it's because I ALLOW for the option of a No answer.
Oh SO and I both had the talk
Oh SO and I both had the talk with him. This is our home, our rules, you are the child we are the adults, you do not get a say in this home. Tried taking things away, sending him to his room, making him do manual labor, seems like much is not working right now.
I love my SO and I am getting along with the in-laws really well. All of them created this spoiled entitled like an adult attitude. It is hard for me to stay calm sometimes and not blame everyone. I have my days and today was one of them.
I threatened to take away his sports next year if he ever lied to me again about his homework and tried to manipulate the situation like he did just to get his way and what he wanted. Trust me it is not a threat, he pulls that ever again, I will flat out rip his butt out of the sport mid-season. School and academics comes first.
It just seems like things are not clicking with him. That his actions will result in punishment if it is not appropriate. SO and I both told him one more bad remark on his report card this marking period he will not be allowed to go to the theme park all summer near our house. He only connects that punishment with that event. It doe snot click to not lie to me and try to get away with lying because hey ash only said my report card in school.
How do you get a kid like that to see all his behaviors and actions have consequences? He has been in trouble for things a lot lately but nothing is connecting.