DS is 8 but I am so fed up of his attitude it really gets me down and makes me think he's not a nice child. Everything is so negative and he's so ungrateful. For instance I did an Easter egg hunt for them today, granted he had asked me not to do clues but to make it a bit harder in the hiding places, and I probably didn't make it very hard.
But straight away he just moaned the hiding places were too easy and just walked around collecting the eggs with no sense of excitement or rushing. I know he's 8 so he doesn't believe in the bunny or anything so I wasn't expecting the rushing around squealing from younger days but still. We then went into the garden for that hunt and he said he didn't care about going, then went he went it was the same attitude. I showed him his two big eggs and not even a thank you just that he'd seem them in the cupboard hidden already- which I did know about and was an accident.
He then lay on the sofa having a strop when I said we were going to a NT place and having a roast. Everything is I don't like at the moment. He's so negative and ungrateful about everything I do for him. He always without a doubt finds the thing that went slightly wrong or he didn't like in any situation.
It's embarrassing as he speaks to me in such a teenage rude way when we are with others- I always pull him up on it but it makes no difference. Yesterday he had a strop about going for a walk and his friend couldn't believe why he was doing it- he was lying next to him really confused. I find it so embarrassing. He then really enjoyed the walk- not that he would admit it- but that doesn't stop him having a strop next time.
When he was younger we would come down quite tough on behaviour like this or ignore. But as he's got older he's not grown out of it and we realise he had real problems dealing with his emotions. Only at home though, which he freely admits to. He's seeing a therapist about this. So then I find myself hugging him and trying to talk to him about his feelings when he has these strips as this is what the therapist has said to do and the other methods didn't work but it feels like we are pandering to him.
He has an answer for everything and already I feel like Easter Sunday has been ruined by having to have a conversation about his attitude and telling him I won't bother doing it for him next year then. I am tired of trying to do nice things without any appreciation. He doesn't learn or attempt to change his attitude. We have had falling outs at Christmas and his birthday when his attitude has left me very upset.