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Name calling

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Annonom · 18/11/2023 23:20

My DSS (13) continually calls my DS (4) a loser or smelly or a noob. It is really starting to get to me. I continually ask him not to, try and remind him to be kind. Ask him to stop as I don’t DS repeating it in school, try to explain the age difference or that when he was that age I would have been cross if someone was doing that to him but it falls on deaf ears. I want them to play and interact but this continual taunting is really getting to me. I panic about it, he does it in ear shot, out of ear shot. If I ask him to stop calling him smelly he will call him a loser instead. I need some help on how to deal with the situation. I’ve tried explaining that it would be like a 20 year old doing it to him all the time but nothing is working. Am I in the wrong to be getting so annoyed about it? I just feel like you should be safe from taunting/bullying in your own home.

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Temporaryname158 · 18/11/2023 23:31

Get serious and really mean business about it. Have some actual consequences for it and also, where is their dad? What does he think of this and has he spoken to his son?

Annonom · 18/11/2023 23:49

He works away a lot so I tend to do most of the parenting. He doesn’t seem as bothered about it and will give DS something to say back like ‘I know you are but what am I?’ I feel like I am the only one who is bothered by it but I don’t want him to be hearing that all the time by someone he worships the ground of.

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