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<blockquote data-quote="Methuselah" data-source="post: 543970" data-attributes="member: 12725"><p>Malika. They have been like this since the day we adopted them. difficult child 1 didn't go psychopathically intensive until her 10th birthday when she made the proclamation "now that I am 10, I don't need parents anymore." Her exact words. It has been a living nightmare since. Before that she was pathologically stubborn, but would eventually do the right thing or fake the right thing, to at least get a reward for doing the right thing. Now? NOTHING changes her behavior. difficult child 2 steals, lies, cons and manipulates with no remorse. Always has. If she wants something, whether something material or simply attention, she believes she has the right to take it. Period. She understands it is wrong and it hurts other people; she just doesn't care. </p><p></p><p>It is believed it is genetic. Their birth mom was in and out of prison. difficult child 1, difficult child 2 and Slugger all share the same BM but have different dads. I worried when Slugger hit puberty that the rush of testosterone hit, psychopathy would rear its ugly head. Praise God it hasn't. When he responds empathetically or with remorse, I cry...often sobbing with gratefulness. I don't know specifically what caused it, but I do know this: my daughters do the things they do with a clear mind. It is done deliberately and intentionally without remorse, guilt, shame or empathy. They never connect their behavior to the consequences. Never. They often don't see their bad behavior as the same as someone else's. For instance, the last week of a school, difficult child 2 got suspended for stealing someone's lunch. The next week she made a comment about some show she was watching where a waitress took a customer's food back to the kitchen to box it up and ate off the plate while doing it. difficult child 2 was flabbergasted someone would do that. I said, "Said the girl who steals other people's lunches outright." Complete disconnect to her behavior, which is a trait of psychopaths.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Methuselah, post: 543970, member: 12725"] Malika. They have been like this since the day we adopted them. difficult child 1 didn't go psychopathically intensive until her 10th birthday when she made the proclamation "now that I am 10, I don't need parents anymore." Her exact words. It has been a living nightmare since. Before that she was pathologically stubborn, but would eventually do the right thing or fake the right thing, to at least get a reward for doing the right thing. Now? NOTHING changes her behavior. difficult child 2 steals, lies, cons and manipulates with no remorse. Always has. If she wants something, whether something material or simply attention, she believes she has the right to take it. Period. She understands it is wrong and it hurts other people; she just doesn't care. It is believed it is genetic. Their birth mom was in and out of prison. difficult child 1, difficult child 2 and Slugger all share the same BM but have different dads. I worried when Slugger hit puberty that the rush of testosterone hit, psychopathy would rear its ugly head. Praise God it hasn't. When he responds empathetically or with remorse, I cry...often sobbing with gratefulness. I don't know specifically what caused it, but I do know this: my daughters do the things they do with a clear mind. It is done deliberately and intentionally without remorse, guilt, shame or empathy. They never connect their behavior to the consequences. Never. They often don't see their bad behavior as the same as someone else's. For instance, the last week of a school, difficult child 2 got suspended for stealing someone's lunch. The next week she made a comment about some show she was watching where a waitress took a customer's food back to the kitchen to box it up and ate off the plate while doing it. difficult child 2 was flabbergasted someone would do that. I said, "Said the girl who steals other people's lunches outright." Complete disconnect to her behavior, which is a trait of psychopaths. [/QUOTE]
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