My 5 year old is grumpy and argumentative with our family. I have 2 other much older boys and he argues with them and us all the time. By all the time I mean that that is all he really does. He comes through in the morning and argues whether it is early or late or light or dark or hot or cold, and so it goes on for the rest of the day. We never have a laugh. We try but the only time we have peace is if he is watching a program and apart from that everyone avoids him. Mealtimes are a battle and getting him to school is even worse. I hate what he is turning me into. I spend half my day shouting. I have even smacked him a few times which I am not proud of but he drives me crazy. This morning after a particularly hard school run where i ended up shouting in his face to shut up I have come home and cried in utter despair. I try playing games and I take him to the park but all I get is grief. It is awful.
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Argumentative 5 yr old and relationship breakdown
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Hogarth10 · 23/01/2015 10:03
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