He's 7, and he's OK some of the time, but have just had a fairly ghastly half hour in the park with him and his friend from up the road. There's also been a bit of low-level bullying at school.
Basically DS is terribly set on having everything his own way, talks over other kids, invents new rules for games on the spot if he appears to be losing and has stomping tantrums if the other kids won't co-operate. He's my son and I love him to bits; he's not a bad kid and in fact he's usually very good with children who are younger than him. Any hints on how to gently-but-firmly convince him to play along nicely?
ANother problem is I know I was a bit like this myself as a kid and his dad is one of those people who is always right and a bit socially clueless. My teenage years were pretty gruesome and I'd like to spare DS the worst of that sort of thing - I do OK now as an adult because I can just walk away from things that wind me up and I have plenty of friends who don't get across me, but I'm worried about DS.
Yes he is slightly dyspraxic, which may be part of it as well.