Rules mean nothing to this kid. Neither does common decency. I'm a big man, 6'8", 265lbs. He's only 10 years old and probably weighs no more than 75lbs. He once grabbed a cup of coffee off the table next to me and said, "Here, have some coffee" as he poured it on my chest. He then dropped the cup and ran. My sister found him before I could and took him home.
We've discovered one thing over the years; he only acts like this when his grandmother is around. He's a perfect gentleman when she is not. It's her permissive attitude that emboldens him and makes him. So the problem now is how to get my sister to visit w/o bringing him and vice-versa.
"We've discovered one thing over the years; he only acts like this when his grandmother is around. He's a perfect gentleman when she is not. It's her permissive attitude that emboldens him and makes him. So the problem now is how to get my sister to visit w/o bringing him and vice-versa." Interesting. We've discovered the boy behaves perfectly when his mother is not around (when he is with us). he is well aware as much as we love him he will not get away with rudeness, disobeying us, sloppiness, etc. It's all a matter of consistency in the discipline and my wife is trying hard to get our daughter to take a stronger stand with him.