Sparkles, G is 12 and every now and then I think he has a hormone surge and becomes impossible, really horrible and quarrelsome.
It's difficult to know how to handle them isn't it?
I'm not very good at dealing with him at all, H is much better and I suppose between the two of us we manage to stay connected to him...if you know what I mean.
He's very into having his own space and often wants to be left alone, but at other times he wants constant reassurance of love and to know we think he's brilliant, the best boy ever, a genius and funny and brave.
He's all over the place, trying to find himself in an ever shifting world.
I remember being 12 and I was AWFUL.
I think my parenting style would be very much like Lois in Malcom In The Middle, but I only have one child to deal with, God knows how you stay sane[ish] when you have several.
G is also a bit of a control freak and likes to dictate how things get done.
NIGHTMARE.
Lots of clashing, especially with me, but it will pass and then he'll move to London and live in a Penthouse overlooking the Thames and we'll never see him [His words not mine...but said with a grin ]
He wants to be Alan Sugar apparently.