DS1 is 11.5 and a bit of a dickhead. He routinely insults me (mostly me), his dad and brother, calls us names, insists we're awful, overstrict, hideous parents etc. I find this very difficult to cope with and it doesn't help that DH thinks I should be able to just ignore it. I'm not going to just ignore being called a fat biatch, am I 🙄
Advice please, kind Mumsnetters. How to deal with this in a way that a) doesn't escalate the situation to confiscation of phones but b) doesn't let him get away with being a twat?
I can't just look back at what my own parents did because they (well, my mother) tended towards smacking heads into walls and so I never said boo to her. I don't want to go that way with my own kids but he is making it very difficult to keep my composure on am hourly basis....
Help!