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DS is on Spring Break, and of course none of his friends are...not until next week...
Anyway, he has been whining, complaining, demanding, yelling at EVERYONE, snarky, rude, sneaky, etc....
I have offered him different projects to work on, allowed tv/video game time, crafts, cooking with me....but heaven forbid I ask him to pick up anything or talk to me in a nice voice, or be nice to his sister....
He is the nicest kid in the world one minute, and mean and angry the next. I realize he cannot play outside much (we are redoing what little back yard we have and out front is the street, no yard) and he wants to play with some friends but I don't know what to do...dd and I are sickish, I took him to his friends house last night and we stayed until almost 11....
He's been telling me that I only pay attention to his sister, I make sure she has clean pants, and things to play with and I do nothing for him. That isn't really true...but dd is 15 months old and he is seven...so she does need a bit more from me than he does.
I took him to the store with me the other night and he had money with him to buy whatever, and after that he went to dinner with his gma, and last night we went to his friends, his gma is taking him again this evening and tomorrow he goes to biodads....it was less than two weeks ago he and I had a 'date', went to dinner, at Gameworks, won over 600 tickets, had split heart necklaces made (1/2 was ds name, 1/2 says momma)....
I dread taking him to the store because if I don't buy him something he says, you get to spend money on whatever you want and I get nothing. your mean, i don't like you, etc (mind you this is at the grocery store....yeah, I love buying milk, I cannot thing of anything I'd rather spend money on...it's everything I want)
When I do buy him things or make sure he has money to spend on himself, I am the best momma EVER, yada yada yada....
How do I deal with his jealousy toward his sister? How do we stop the whining/complaining for anything he doesn't see as 'fair'....we use rules and consequenses, natural consequenses, but I cannot take much more of my seven year old whining and when I ask him to please talk to me in a regular voice he screams in my face....AAARRRRGGGHHHH!
What else can I do???????
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Anyway, he has been whining, complaining, demanding, yelling at EVERYONE, snarky, rude, sneaky, etc....
I have offered him different projects to work on, allowed tv/video game time, crafts, cooking with me....but heaven forbid I ask him to pick up anything or talk to me in a nice voice, or be nice to his sister....
He is the nicest kid in the world one minute, and mean and angry the next. I realize he cannot play outside much (we are redoing what little back yard we have and out front is the street, no yard) and he wants to play with some friends but I don't know what to do...dd and I are sickish, I took him to his friends house last night and we stayed until almost 11....
He's been telling me that I only pay attention to his sister, I make sure she has clean pants, and things to play with and I do nothing for him. That isn't really true...but dd is 15 months old and he is seven...so she does need a bit more from me than he does.
I took him to the store with me the other night and he had money with him to buy whatever, and after that he went to dinner with his gma, and last night we went to his friends, his gma is taking him again this evening and tomorrow he goes to biodads....it was less than two weeks ago he and I had a 'date', went to dinner, at Gameworks, won over 600 tickets, had split heart necklaces made (1/2 was ds name, 1/2 says momma)....
I dread taking him to the store because if I don't buy him something he says, you get to spend money on whatever you want and I get nothing. your mean, i don't like you, etc (mind you this is at the grocery store....yeah, I love buying milk, I cannot thing of anything I'd rather spend money on...it's everything I want)
When I do buy him things or make sure he has money to spend on himself, I am the best momma EVER, yada yada yada....
How do I deal with his jealousy toward his sister? How do we stop the whining/complaining for anything he doesn't see as 'fair'....we use rules and consequenses, natural consequenses, but I cannot take much more of my seven year old whining and when I ask him to please talk to me in a regular voice he screams in my face....AAARRRRGGGHHHH!
What else can I do???????
