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<blockquote data-quote="OpenWindow" data-source="post: 84769" data-attributes="member: 45"><p>How do you handle the complete disrespect. He does it to me nightly, and I've sort of become numb to it. He gets consequences and we hope in time he'll learn, but I'm beginning to doubt it. Usually he leaves the worst of the disrespect for me. Last night, he went all out on a cub scout leader. </p><p></p><p>He begged and begged me to let him join scouts. He's been getting along at school better than last year, but probably because he's in a self-contained classroom most of the day so there's just less interacting. Against my judgment, I took him to a scout meeting last night. I thought maybe I was wrong and everyone else was right about him handling other kids better. Only took him 10 minutes to get into an argument with a couple of kids, and decided he wanted to quit. </p><p></p><p>The scout leader sat with him to try to talk to him. difficult child was so disrespectful to this man, I couldnt even believe it. He had a smart aleck comeback for everything this man was saying. Like when he said sometimes life doesnt go the way you want it and you just have to do things you dont want to do, difficult child said, Yeah, and I bet you had to walk 4 miles to school both ways when you were a kid. Another lie adults tell kids. He's acted this way to me and to teachers he knows well, but never someone he's met for the first time.</p><p></p><p>I had my doubts, but never imagined it would turn out as bad as it did, and as quickly as it did. When we got home, he calmed down and we talked a little. He can tell me exactly how he should have handled it, and could tell me why is what so bad that he talked to this man that way. He knew he embarrassed me, he said he disappointed me and himself. Thats what is so hard. He knows how he is supposed to act, and he can even see how it effects other people, and he feels bad about it. Why cant we get through to him when hes in the middle of a confrontation, why can't he see it before he does this? </p><p></p><p></p><p>Linda</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OpenWindow, post: 84769, member: 45"] How do you handle the complete disrespect. He does it to me nightly, and I've sort of become numb to it. He gets consequences and we hope in time he'll learn, but I'm beginning to doubt it. Usually he leaves the worst of the disrespect for me. Last night, he went all out on a cub scout leader. He begged and begged me to let him join scouts. He's been getting along at school better than last year, but probably because he's in a self-contained classroom most of the day so there's just less interacting. Against my judgment, I took him to a scout meeting last night. I thought maybe I was wrong and everyone else was right about him handling other kids better. Only took him 10 minutes to get into an argument with a couple of kids, and decided he wanted to quit. The scout leader sat with him to try to talk to him. difficult child was so disrespectful to this man, I couldnt even believe it. He had a smart aleck comeback for everything this man was saying. Like when he said sometimes life doesnt go the way you want it and you just have to do things you dont want to do, difficult child said, Yeah, and I bet you had to walk 4 miles to school both ways when you were a kid. Another lie adults tell kids. He's acted this way to me and to teachers he knows well, but never someone he's met for the first time. I had my doubts, but never imagined it would turn out as bad as it did, and as quickly as it did. When we got home, he calmed down and we talked a little. He can tell me exactly how he should have handled it, and could tell me why is what so bad that he talked to this man that way. He knew he embarrassed me, he said he disappointed me and himself. Thats what is so hard. He knows how he is supposed to act, and he can even see how it effects other people, and he feels bad about it. Why cant we get through to him when hes in the middle of a confrontation, why can't he see it before he does this? Linda [/QUOTE]
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