DS is 10 (recently turned) and at the age where she's starting to be a bit disrespectful towards me. I understand that at this age they are starting to be more independent, that parents become more embarrassing etc.
But at times the way he speaks to me is plain rude. E.g. correcting me on grammatical mistakes (ok I can handle that), tutting when I ask how his day was etc, stomping about when I ask perfectly reasonable questions.
I pull him up on it and say that he's being rude / disrespectful. He's usually sorry and as an emotional child (always been) we can even get some tears about it. But still does it frequently. And it seems to be getting more frequent as he grows older.
To add to this it seems to be me in particular he is like this with (lone parent). His dad is around fairly infrequently (not a helpful character) and does little of the day to day stuff so me and DS are in each others faces all the time and get little break from each other. He doesn't behave like it to his dad because he rarely sees him.
Does anyone have any words of advice or tactics they use? Is this normal?
He is a good boy for the most part, doing well enough at school. No huge issues other than this.