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How do you handle defiance? Take things away?
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 457554" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Terry - difficult child is 14. Its not very acceptable for male 14yos to be hangin out with mom. Dad... ok. Uncles and cousins are WAY higher value. Mom??? they get bullied for less than hangin out with Mom. So.. you're one down to start with. Obviously Monoploy isn't quite his thing. How can you get into HIS world? I think Marg is on the right track... find some form of computer activity that you both can be involved in - Wii? going to the Gym? swim? cooking some easy but show-off stuff (like... tacos. not that tough but other 14yos are impressed if you can pull it off... I mean, some adults are impressed too!) Where can you "meet in the middle"?</p><p></p><p>(me, IT tech-head... one thing that difficult child can hang out with me for is computer tips and training... 'cause he gets neat stuff to do and to show off how to do to his friends, but there's no backlash to learning tech from a tech even if its Mom...! the other is cooking which difficult child says is OK "because I need to know for when I leave home and/or go back-country camping")</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 457554, member: 11791"] Terry - difficult child is 14. Its not very acceptable for male 14yos to be hangin out with mom. Dad... ok. Uncles and cousins are WAY higher value. Mom??? they get bullied for less than hangin out with Mom. So.. you're one down to start with. Obviously Monoploy isn't quite his thing. How can you get into HIS world? I think Marg is on the right track... find some form of computer activity that you both can be involved in - Wii? going to the Gym? swim? cooking some easy but show-off stuff (like... tacos. not that tough but other 14yos are impressed if you can pull it off... I mean, some adults are impressed too!) Where can you "meet in the middle"? (me, IT tech-head... one thing that difficult child can hang out with me for is computer tips and training... 'cause he gets neat stuff to do and to show off how to do to his friends, but there's no backlash to learning tech from a tech even if its Mom...! the other is cooking which difficult child says is OK "because I need to know for when I leave home and/or go back-country camping") [/QUOTE]
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