Parenting

Adam is giving me gray hair, wrinkles, worry warts and sleepless nights. He is going in a direction I don't think is good for him and I don't know how to turn him around. He's 7, not the end of the world, he's just starting out on the whole life ladder. What worries me is that life, even for little kids, isn't always kind. How can you tell him so that he understands that the reason the kids don't want to play with him is because its always go to behis way. If its not the tears start and he stomps home crying no one likes him. He HAS to be the ringleader, his ideas, his execution, his rules (that are changed ona second pe secodn basis).
He is never wrong. Adam: the sky is blue, Mum: the sky is grey today, Adam mum why did you make me say blue.. hello, its your eyes that are the problem not my psychic ability that fixes yur answer before it comes out of your mouth.

He always has to have the last word. He doesn't like to do his hoeowrk and he has a bad attitude when he has to do somethin he doesn't want to do. He does not listen.

I truly do not want to put this down as a 'phase' all boys go through nor do I want to break his 'spirit' becaause as we all know Adam has had some of these characteristics since birth! Have I given him too many choices? Have our boundaries fallen by the wayside or are there too many? Have we not been giving him enough time? I truly want a happy little boy without and not concentrate too much on all the rules.

I'm up a few barriers as well. I am going to have to go back to basics with routines and might just throw away the television.