My ds turned 10 in October. But since the age of 3/4 he’s been hard work. Constant moaning and whining and it doesn’t matter what we do he’s never happy.
Recently it’s getting worse. He has to be right every single time. You will be telling him something and he will argue that what you are saying is wrong and everything he says/knows is true.
I.e he was happy watching the rugby with us and then we mentioned one of the rules. He didn’t believe us and thought it was wrong even though we showed him on google.
He shouts at me, pulls faces while I’m talking to him, and then deny doing it when I tell him off. He calls me a liar all the time. He’s just generally angry and we say to ourselves he’s like Jekyll and Hyde!
We are actually not enjoying spending time with him because he’s so miserable and grumpy.
His biological dad was abusive/temperamental. He would lose his temper very quickly and had been to prison for attacking his own mother.
My fear is ds will end up like him. Ds is amazingly smart, amazing at maths etc. He can be so loving and funny.
Obviously Iv never said any of my fears to ds.
Sometimes he looks at me like he could kill me.