This is it in a nutshell and I'm really struggling with his behaviour. Every day we follow the same pattern - I get up in the morning and he's on the ipad (which in the scheme of things I don't have a problem with), I tell him to come off - breakfast is in 10 mins. He'll agree and "finish off what he's doing". 10 minutes later I'll call him for breakfast and it will take him 10 minutes to come downstairs - he's not on the iPad at this point, he's just messing / faffing by which time his breakfast has gone cold. This is a consistent theme for every mealtime but is a lesser problem to the one below.
Once he's got going for the day, he never stops talking. I literally have to tell him to stop when me or his brother need to say something as otherwise he would just continue with his monologue all day. It feels really inconsiderate that he does this and also whilst he's talking he's incapable of focusing on anything else. He drops things all the time, forgets things and misses stuff because he's never listening. Some of his topics are really inappropriate as well.
I'm on my own with my boys most of the time and I really don't know how to handle this. When he forgets stuff he'll always say "why didn't you remind me?" and it's like "I did but you weren't listening to me".
Does anyone know what I can do about this. He's actually a lovely child underneath all the talking but I'm struggling to access this and I'm worried it will affect my younger child too.
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I find my 11 yo son really annoying!
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Lovingyou · 05/07/2020 21:34
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