For the most part, my son is a good kid. He’s a typical 10 year old boy who loves to read, loves to play sports, loves to play Fortnite, and loves to watch TV. Unfortunately he’s extremely immature. He’s the oldest of 4 and is always exposed to his younger siblings and hasn’t been around peers his own age since March. At times, he can be extremely nasty to his siblings, but I would categorize it as normal sibling behavior and in no time he’s back to playing nicely with them.Anytime he gets into trouble, we talk to him about his behavior and he is given a consequence. Sometimes we skip the discussing and yell at him because it often seems like the same stuff is occurring over and over and over again. It often feels like Groundhogs day with parenting him. He seems to be impulsive; he fiddles with and breaks stuff occasionally and often it’s not his stuff that gets broken, it’s his siblings’.There aren’t many consequences we give him aside from being grounded from TV or video games or sending him to his room. I make him help with chores, but I don’t like to use that as punishment because they are general life skills we should be teaching him and I don’t want them to be associated negatively (other than him not feeling like doing them because he can certainly at times be lazy).What do you all do when consequences don’t work because the same behavior is repeated? I’m growing very frustrated with him and I’m not enjoying spending time with him because the repetition has become a burden. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2Dgkmmj
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