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Treasurekatt's picture

Does anyone have any advice on dealing with a disrespectful skid? I'm out of ways to try and help this child. He fights in school constantly lies does bad things to my daughter steals and he's only 9. I find myself resenting him for it. I don't know what else to do please help! Sad

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MotheringHeights's picture

All I can suggest is he's reacting to something that is bigger than 'Jonny stole my pencil' or 'my sister called me a name' type scenarios. In isolation they are obviously the wrong things to do, but the sum of them suggests an underlying reason why he is aggrieved. Try and find it. Ask him even, not as a Q&A session but in a conversation or two or three. Kids are pretty intuitive and he can probably sense some resentment already.

Treasurekatt's picture

Thank you all for the advice his mother abandoned him and his dad is always at work so I'm always taking care of him. I'm so drained physically and emotionally his mother wants nothing to do with him and dad is just too tired. He does step in but it's usually when I'm tired or he finds me to be really upset. He has gotten therapy and that didn't help. So I'm thinking if putting him in a sport since he likes gymnastics I guess I'll give it a try. And as for my daughter it's hard for me to just up and leave because she is such a daddies girl and she deserves to have both parents and I think that me taking her away from get daddy is unfair just because of him. His dad is thinking of putting him Iin some sort of military school we found one that accepts them as you g as 10. So hopefully it works. Fingers crossed.