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Thursday, May 08, 2008 - (see all news for this day)
attitude central - 07:33 AM
(filed under 'smiley')
smiley is driving me nuts. he seems to have turned into a teenager about ten years early.
i'm taking the rare affection & nice manners with much gratitude & revelling in it when it happens. if he actually comes up to me & gives me a hug (shock! horror!), i hang onto those warm fuzzies for as long as i possibly can & desperately try to draw those feelings up again when he's being a little pain in the bum the rest of the time.
every day, several times a day, he tells me, 'just let me do what i WANT!!' & 'go away!' & other variations on the theme.
if he asks me a question & i answer it to the best of my ability, he almost always tells me belligerently, 'no! that's not it!' & then gives me his own answer anyway. he's always right.
the lack of manners, the complete impatience, the demanding attitude. frankly, he's turned into a really rude & horrible little boy.
i'm onto him all the time about his behaviour, but i'm trying not to hold it against him, because i can recognise in what he's doing, the same things i've seen in myself when i've been in full hormonal overload. i've seen myself be an absolutely horrible cow, with a constant mood, & know that i'm doing it, yet i've not been able to stop it, even while i could see myself doing it. i've gone through that twice in my recent adult life & it felt awful to be so out of control.
i think, perhaps, that smiley's not old enough—nor experienced in life enough—to see in himself how horrible he's being, so i'm trying to keep that in mind & tell myself day by day, minute by minute, that this, too, shall pass. that surely it's one of those normal hormonal things that kids/boys go through around this age.
i've read that this is right about the age when they have a testosterone overload. that around this age, they have about the same amount of testosterone surging through their little bodies as does a full grown man. if that's the case, then all i can do is try to understand & ride it out with him.
he's been this way for about three or four weeks now. i can't remember how long he was taken over by aliens the last time, but i really hope it doesn't last much longer.
*hugs*
Keep those limits on his behaviour, be consistent with him, and you'll get there.
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Let the aliens take him for a while