13 year old attitude
Hey!
We took in a family members child a little over a year ago. Long story short his parents have died, he’s had a traumatic life and we didn’t really know him before taking him in.
He’s been doing great however he’s starting to have a crazy attitude all the time and it’s throwing us for a loop as people who don’t have other kids and myself feel like 26 year old child.
I know part of me should be happy he feels safe enough to have an attitude now but it’s difficult knowing where to draw the line. Especially when I know what he’s been through and can relate to a lot of it. How much do you let slip while also enforcing the rules and teaching that they can be upset but are still held to a standard.
I also understand why he’d have a hard time listening to us. We’re basically strangers that decided to take on a parenting role and we don’t have a decades worth of repor with him.
And I figure someone will ask - yes he is in therapy.