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5 years DS, already like a teen - always frustrated when talking with him!

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prayfordirection · 08/08/2017 10:59

DS most of the time is an easygoing one. He rarely causes troubles, except being careless sometimes. He's both sensitive to criticism and can become very stubborn occasionally.

What frustrates me is the communication. It's probably my approach is not right. At the meantime he's very good at "soft refusal to cooperate".

Basically, like a teen, when you ask questions, depending in his mood, he would deliberately either ignore you or responding with light-hearted tone which most of the time turned out to be just joking. It drives me nuts!

Almost half of the time it ended with me shouting at him to get a serious answer. Or sometimes he just started crying and we had to left the whatever question behind.

I don't know if this has something to do with his slightly lagged behind speech development, or for him it's too much work to give proper answers (as it requires orgising ideas in mind before speaking out), or he's just resistant to my approach.

I don't want to start this kind of communication pattern while he's only 5, but really have no idea what to do and how to guide us into a healthier rapport in terms of communication... He's not teen yet!

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