looking for advice more than anything. I am at my wits end with our 8yo DS. He has never been a happy go lucky child, a very negative thinker, was a very whiny baby and is still a very whiny child. His behaviour has increasingly become worse and worse. He will wake up in a bad mood, extremely grumpy, will argue about eating breakfast/ going to school/ what socks to wear/ what underwear to wear, he will find something wrong with everything! everyday is a battle. Picking him up from school, he still looks grumpy, will start to argue about the silliest of things! As the evening hoes on he will wind his little sister up, he will hit her, lie to my face about doing it, i will send him to his room and go in to have a chat about his behaviour where he does this horrible “oh stooooohhhoooop” (telling me to basically shut up) he has 0 respect for his father AT ALL, and DH doesn’t really help the situation as he just does not parent him. I’ve tried to talk to him saying I noticed he seems unhappy and is there anything upsetting or worrying him? He says he’s fine, but his behaviour is concerning me so much i’ve been in tears this evening after yet another hectic evening in his delightful company. I would love to be able yo enjoy my son and enjoy his company, but its gotten to the stage I dread picking him up from school, he is SO grumpy! He does have dome lovely qualities but atm the bad outweigh the good