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Last Night's therapist Appointment
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<blockquote data-quote="Bunny" data-source="post: 484053"><p>Buddy, yes he is a VERY literal thinker. There is no gray area with him. It's either black or white. With difficult child, there can be no in between. It's exhausting!</p><p></p><p>Malika, he is both very mature and immature at the same time, if that makes any sense at all. He was mature enough to be able to come and talk to me about his first "girl problem" and he listened to what I had to say and actually put what I said into practice. Very mature for a 12 year old difficult child. Even the therapist thought so. However, he is in many ways quite immature. If he wants me, he calls and calls and screams for me because he's very much like a little kid and I have to go to him. There are alot of time when I tell him that if he wants to talk to me that much he can come to me. Sometimes he does, sometimes that makes him just scream more. </p><p></p><p>We have tried telling him that if he expects his to respect him then he has to earn it and show us respect as well. He seems to equate love and respect as the same thing. He says that we "have" to respect him because we're his parents and that is what parents do. He seems to be confusing respect with love.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bunny, post: 484053"] Buddy, yes he is a VERY literal thinker. There is no gray area with him. It's either black or white. With difficult child, there can be no in between. It's exhausting! Malika, he is both very mature and immature at the same time, if that makes any sense at all. He was mature enough to be able to come and talk to me about his first "girl problem" and he listened to what I had to say and actually put what I said into practice. Very mature for a 12 year old difficult child. Even the therapist thought so. However, he is in many ways quite immature. If he wants me, he calls and calls and screams for me because he's very much like a little kid and I have to go to him. There are alot of time when I tell him that if he wants to talk to me that much he can come to me. Sometimes he does, sometimes that makes him just scream more. We have tried telling him that if he expects his to respect him then he has to earn it and show us respect as well. He seems to equate love and respect as the same thing. He says that we "have" to respect him because we're his parents and that is what parents do. He seems to be confusing respect with love. [/QUOTE]
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