I'm normally a patient parent, I have a little PMT at the moment but if he corrects me one more time I may blow my top. What do I do?

[BelleDeChocolateFluffyBunny]

He's very bright, I go through it time and time again, he shouldn't correct people because they don't like it. I couldn't give a shite that I've spelt something incorrectly, worse things happen. He's 10, everything I try just seems to go through one ear and out of the other. He has to have the last word in everything aswell. It's driving me nuts.

He plays games online already cargirl. He needs real interaction IYSWIM, to see people's expressions so he can learn to back off when people look annoyed. They have just set up a chess club at school during a lunch time and they have asked him to organise it which he really likes. They are changing the staff at GW so I hope to take him back, it is full of other people who lack social skills though, a couple who are worse then ds, they try and boss the staff around.

If you can bear it get him to invite some other GW users around to play at your house. Obviously you may have to get hold of parents phone numbers to ring up and arrange etc At least they're not rowdy!

He will go back, I am avoiding the manager if I'm being honest, he's a controlling, self obsessed arse , we were friends, I started a thread as he was doing my head in. He see's everything as negative, no one does anything kind to help him etc. He's not the best influence on ds, he takes childrens sweets aswell and always begs them for food. I'm waiting for him to leave.

Our house is just too small cargirl. It's cluttered with just ds and I in it (and all of ds's things).

I'm trying to think of something that he could do that uses the same skills as games but isn't games. Something that involves putting himself on the line and open to (positive) criticism (but would ultimately feed into his HUGE furture in game design ). What about drama? Or in the long term - creative writing?

I tried creative writing, there isn't anything here that he can join. There's a stagecoach which he could join, it's quite expensive though, the free drama club at the theatre is audition in September only.

I think he should be a barrister, he can argue all day long then

In that case go for the drama - and go for the free one (personally, and for no good reason, I'm a bit sus about stagecoach...) There are loads of odd wee drama groups about the place which shouldn't cost a bomb. It'll teach him co-operation and empathy while at the same time equipping him for a legal career!

Thankyou. I'll look into it and see if I can find one. The amount of childrens activities we have here is pathetic considering it's supposto be a city!

Free works for me, we have not had a holiday yet and it needs addressing!

Have you tried the music centre at St B's on a Saturday morning? It's very cheap and loads of different stuff going on.