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Exhausting weeks with 50% step-son who doesn't listen...Please help...
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<blockquote data-quote="TryingEveryday" data-source="post: 724409" data-attributes="member: 22474"><p>Thanks everyone for your replies.</p><p></p><p>Re: needing an activity - he plays soccer on a team 2-3 times per week (it goes almost all-year-round). He loves it. Plus he plays with friends a lot too.</p><p></p><p>I read about ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) and a lot of that rings true. So I read up on it and methods to approach defiance and diffuse it, how to react to defiant children, etc. The first week after I read it and we implemented new tactics, things mostly went better. Played video games more with him, read to him at night, involved him more in things like cooking and decisions, etc.</p><p></p><p>However, the next week, Whoa. It was great the first few days. But then the last couple of days he seemed almost bipolar. For example, today he had a meltdown because of some music I put on (soft xmas music), saying how awful it was and ran to his room, refusing to be in the same room as the music because it wasn’t what he wanted to listen to, cursing about it and calling it sh*t. Then about 15 minutes later he came back completely normal like nothing happened. He later (about an hour later) got really mad at his mother about something, and was crying and shouting at her, but then about 10 minutes later came and told her she was the greatest person ever. It’s like 180 degree turns within minutes.</p><p></p><p>I’m at the point where I’m just going to say screw it, we have to see a psychiatrist, because this isn’t normal. Regardless of what his father thinks. He doesn’t live here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TryingEveryday, post: 724409, member: 22474"] Thanks everyone for your replies. Re: needing an activity - he plays soccer on a team 2-3 times per week (it goes almost all-year-round). He loves it. Plus he plays with friends a lot too. I read about ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) and a lot of that rings true. So I read up on it and methods to approach defiance and diffuse it, how to react to defiant children, etc. The first week after I read it and we implemented new tactics, things mostly went better. Played video games more with him, read to him at night, involved him more in things like cooking and decisions, etc. However, the next week, Whoa. It was great the first few days. But then the last couple of days he seemed almost bipolar. For example, today he had a meltdown because of some music I put on (soft xmas music), saying how awful it was and ran to his room, refusing to be in the same room as the music because it wasn’t what he wanted to listen to, cursing about it and calling it sh*t. Then about 15 minutes later he came back completely normal like nothing happened. He later (about an hour later) got really mad at his mother about something, and was crying and shouting at her, but then about 10 minutes later came and told her she was the greatest person ever. It’s like 180 degree turns within minutes. I’m at the point where I’m just going to say screw it, we have to see a psychiatrist, because this isn’t normal. Regardless of what his father thinks. He doesn’t live here. [/QUOTE]
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