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eightieschick88

Happy Birthday JJ - hope you have a fab day!

Hugs to sarahdohl75, Spiralling Down , Tiny and Logie and everyone who needs one.

Bubbs - sorry to hear about your knee, wishing you a speeding recovery.

Debs - why am I not the slightest bit surprised? lol :EasterBun

silverhairgranny

fuzzgun19 wrote: »

I see lots of easter eggs but no 3 for £10 offer!

hth
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David.

AngelsMadv wrote: »

Good morning all, :wave:

Happy birthday, Jumblejack; Have a great day. :bdaycake:


I still am :A :rotfl:

But on this very subject. OH and I are beyond fair in our house. We have (at home) 16, 10, 7, 5. The 10 year old boy has pretty much pushed OH and I to the edge. This morning he refused to go to breakfast club and his mum, who is so calm it is unnerving, lost it and threw him in the car. He then wouldn't get out for me and started kicking and punching me. It took all my might not to leather him until next Christmas.

I literally would have been grounded for life had I done anything as remotely bad as he did. :eek: His 16 year old sister walked away because she was so upset with him for treating me and OH the way he did. She actually asked permission to "sort it" - I of course told her no!

I guess I'm asking like Tiger. What do you do when they get to the point where they, if they wanted, could simply walk away from you. I feel sick to the stomach, the OH is in pieces, and I can now, for the first time in my life, understand why some families put their own children into care. I feel that would be giving up, but short of giving him the hiding of his life, I have nothing left.

The one breaking point we have that makes us a special case, I guess, is that I'm step dad. His real dad would welcome him back no problem and let him do whatever he liked. His bed time would be "whenever" and school would be optional! I'd feel like sending him there would be sentencing him to a life with nothing more to look forward to than his older (27) half brother - a life of crime and drugs. :(:(

No idea mate not been through that thankfully so can not offer any advice.
Kids do know exactly what to do and say to push your buttons thats for sure.
As you know leathering him is not the answer unless you are wanting a break away yourself and would probably just make him worse.
Is he ok in school as in for others or is he the same with all authority figures.
I dont suppose him having somewhere to go that he can do exactly what he wants helps any.

m4rtin

Had nothing back (Real or wombles) for two days now :mad: Or is it personal :(

David.

Morning All :j

silverhairgranny

Happy Birthday JumbleJack
:bdaycake:

AngelsMadv

David. wrote: »

No idea mate not been through that thankfully so can not offer any advice.
Kids do know exactly what to do and say to push your buttons thats for sure.
As you know leathering him is not the answer unless you are wanting a break away yourself and would probably just make him worse.
Is he ok in school as in for others or is he the same with all authority figures.
I don't suppose him having somewhere to go that he can do exactly what he wants helps any.

Morning, David. Thanks for the words. I do, of course, know that hitting achieves absolutely nothing. The last thing I want him to think is that's what we would do.

To actually get him into the club this morning the deputy head came out (at my request) told me to leave and then had a word with him. He seems fine with the school teachers. He has given a bit of lip at times, but mostly they have him under control.

One major problem is that often if you give him attention 24-7 and do what he wants, all is fine, but I simply can not do that for him in our household. There are 6 of us and it's simply not fair. I can not abide the way he thinks it's OK to speak to the OH and I. I really wish he would learn a little humility and respect.

silverhairgranny

Good Morning all, been busy busy but back for an hour or so.
Hugs to all that need them:)

CM66

If anyone is doing a T's v As then the 400g box of dairy milk compares at £7.50 v £3

David.

Little t did you sleep well last night or was there something red being waved around by a Turk in front of you