The first thing all children try to do, is divide and conquer and he has succeeded.
Your wife is wary that, maybe as a man, you will be too aggressive with him and you two may butt heads. However, she has no need to reward his bad behaviour either!
I find it surprising that they can spend many hours on these games but can't spend 10 minutes doing homework?! I think this is just teenage monster-hood (I have a son of 15yo who may be lucky to see 16yo if he keeps up his behaviour!) Of course, he may grow out of it and be a normal respectful person again or he may continually get worse until he finds your wife's limits.
As a female, I would worry that she is bottling up her anger with him and someday both you and he will return home to find her gone. She is not impervious to his cheek and nastiness, she may be just biding her time until he's old enough to leave. I know that this is how I feel at the moment :o(
Silly little teenage boys don't know when to STF Up!!
My wife won't let my discipline my son... IIN?
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One thing's for sure, he's not stupid!!
The first thing all children try to do, is divide and conquer and he has succeeded.
Your wife is wary that, maybe as a man, you will be too aggressive with him and you two may butt heads. However, she has no need to reward his bad behaviour either!
I find it surprising that they can spend many hours on these games but can't spend 10 minutes doing homework?! I think this is just teenage monster-hood (I have a son of 15yo who may be lucky to see 16yo if he keeps up his behaviour!) Of course, he may grow out of it and be a normal respectful person again or he may continually get worse until he finds your wife's limits.
As a female, I would worry that she is bottling up her anger with him and someday both you and he will return home to find her gone. She is not impervious to his cheek and nastiness, she may be just biding her time until he's old enough to leave. I know that this is how I feel at the moment :o(
Silly little teenage boys don't know when to STF Up!!