Rude Manners

[Brokenfurnitureandroses]

My 11 yo son has taken to doing huge burps and farts at the dinner table, in the car, etc. I’ve told him that it’s rude and disgusting and to stop but he hasn’t done so yet. He argues that he has to do them. He also enjoys making his brothers laugh. What would you do in this situation?

Dock his pocket money £1 every time he does it.
He can make his brothers laugh away from the table.

Make him eat in a room by himself until he can demonstrate considerate behaviour. That would totally put me off my food. Only take him in the car if it's essential, if he wants taking on a day trip or to a friend's house tell him no, as his behaviour disgusts you.

At the dinner table, any rude behaviour was rewarded with them taking their meal to eat standing at the kitchen bench. Obviously there wouldn't be any afters. With in the car, I stopped the car and they could sit/stand at the side of the road, with me next to them, until I decided that they'd seen the error of their ways. I found the more public the road, the colder, windier, and wetter it was, the more effective it seemed to be. I was also very withering of how their ability to control their bodily functions seemed to have regressed.

I mean they are both normal body functions. He and his brothers only thinks it's funny to force them rather than stifle them because of your reaction. You've entered into a war over this and it's so arbitrary. What level of gas is acceptable?

But leaving the specifics of the bad behaviour. If my 11 DS consistently behaved badly at the dinner table, I would remove his plate. And tell him that he's showing me with his behaviour that he's not interested in eating. If we were in the car going somewhere he wanted I would turn around and go home. If we were going somewhere I wanted to go I would refuse to drop him off at his next request and tell him to walk or get the bus

His actions require consequences
Burping and farting in public is only acceptable up until they are continent

I would say that 11 years old is getting a bit too old for that forced behaviour.
You don't mention how long he's been doing this for, but obviously he can't carry on with it in confined spaces and at the family dinner table.
There's plenty of advice by previous posters. I would suggest having him eat his meals in his bedroom until he can control the urge to make his brother's laugh at something that, after a while shouldn't be so funny, and could possibly lead them eventually starting up a 'wind band' at the table.

Thank you for the advice everyone. You have confirmed for me that it isn’t acceptable at all. Of course you are all right. I will
show him the replies.

Don’t show him the replies, that won’t make any sense to an eleven year old. Just tell him the new consequences of his behaviour, and parent him.
Id be saying that if he is functioning like a five year old, he will be treated like one. So an early bed time, no lifts anywhere, no independence and no pocket money.