Creeping onto this thread, cap in hand, for advice.
When my son (just turned 10) came back from his week long school trip at Easter, he was more stroppy with me usual. I have got this under some control now, but I have noticed a difference in him. It started a little the six months before the trip but now it's more pronounced.
His moods swing much more. He can get really hung up on details - ie choice of meal, clothes or activity. And the choices are ones he used to like. He seems both older ( more self conscious) and younger (more tantrums) than he was a year ago. I have heard the argument that a 9 year old can be more balanced and mature than an 11 year old simply because those pubescent hormones are not surging through their bodies and disturbing their thought processes. Could this be what's happening here? Is this the beginning? My son has no physical changes as yet - not even smelly feet. I am not at all sure what he has reached the prepubescent stage. He could be unhappy/unsettled about something else.
He has just been told the facts of life and seems ok with this knowledge, but doesn't want to talk about it. He has never shown much interest in the facts of life, or other 'grown up' issues like drugs. Dh and I have good lines of communication with him and we've had lots of happy times together recently. It's just that he has more mood swings. I feel that treating him like a naughty child (ie sending him to his room for bad attitude, praising good behavior etc) are techniques not quite so on target as they used to be. I feel I am entering unknown territory, never being a teenage boy myself of course and never having had a brother. Should I change my approach?
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rapid mood swings in a 10 year old - is this the beginning?
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tigermoth · 28/04/2004 12:18
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