DS (14) is a lovely boy, no serious trouble ever but man he can push my buttons, winds everyone up, never knows when to stop a jokeX hard to motivate and can be pretty selfish.
He's been hard going this week; and after the usual fuss last night - not doing homework, not doing chores (only feeding bunnies and putting uniform away, nothing major) it all got a bit shouty and I told him to go upstairs as I had had enough of him.
He said something about not wanting to live here cos I am too naggy and I said well tbh, sometimes you are hard to live with and no one else is being stroppy and lazy and rude and so maybe we don't want to live with him!
It all calmed down and we agreed some compromises and even managed a board game! But now I feel shitty and that maybe it sounded like we don't want him?
So too harsh or reasonable reality check?